I wrote a (very long) blog post about those viral math problems and am looking for feedback, especially from people who are not convinced that the problem is ambiguous.
It’s about a 30min read so thank you in advance if you really take the time to read it, but I think it’s worth it if you joined such discussions in the past, but I’m probably biased because I wrote it :)
I don’t remember everything, but I remember the first two operations are exponents then parentheses. Edit: wait is it the other way around?
Yes it’s the other way round. Parentheses are top priority.
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brackets, index (powers), division, multiplication, addition, subtraction.
brackets are always first that’s the whole point of brackets
The full story is actually more nuanced than most people think, but the post is actually very long (about 30min) so thank you in advance if you really find the time to read it.