Yeah, nah, this equation is whack. Any mathemagician worth their salt doesn’t write an equation like this. This isn’t difficult math, it’s ambiguous and dumb.
This is exactly why I’m an abuser of parentheses when left to my own devices.
For example when writing code, it doesn’t matter that the compiler acts as a strict system underlying it that may or may not conform to my expectations. I want the human reading the code to understand my intentions so I’m going to group things until it’s logically clear at a glance.
This is ambiguous because in other, simpler contexts, implicit multiplication is implied to take priority over non-implicit division. And that’s just usual convention, not a set rule.
If I write 1/2n, most likely it will be understood as 1/(2×n). While 1/2×n or 1÷2×n would be anyone’s guess. Again, 1/2n is not even a rule, just “convenient” and it “seems” like 2n is a block, but make that expression more complex with more operands and it’ll get confusing fast.
There is no correct interpretation of a random ambiguous expression, it’s pointless trying to find one.
Yeah, nah, this equation is whack. Any mathemagician worth their salt doesn’t write an equation like this. This isn’t difficult math, it’s ambiguous and dumb.
Write it like:
8/[2(2+2)] or (8/2)(2+2)
problem solved.
All of these ragebait math posts are. It’s so shitty and obvious, but it always seems to work.
This is exactly why I’m an abuser of parentheses when left to my own devices.
For example when writing code, it doesn’t matter that the compiler acts as a strict system underlying it that may or may not conform to my expectations. I want the human reading the code to understand my intentions so I’m going to group things until it’s logically clear at a glance.
“worth their salt”
I haven’t heard that in a while…
Because there are no parentheses around the first and last two, it should be assumed to be the latter, yeah?
I arrived at 1 prior to trying to understand how it could be 16…
As written, 8÷2… Is the same as 8/2… It would require those brackets/parentheses otherwise.
This is ambiguous because in other, simpler contexts, implicit multiplication is implied to take priority over non-implicit division. And that’s just usual convention, not a set rule.
If I write 1/2n, most likely it will be understood as 1/(2×n). While 1/2×n or 1÷2×n would be anyone’s guess. Again, 1/2n is not even a rule, just “convenient” and it “seems” like 2n is a block, but make that expression more complex with more operands and it’ll get confusing fast.
There is no correct interpretation of a random ambiguous expression, it’s pointless trying to find one.
But you never solved the problem?