If you thought 8 ÷ 2(2+2) = ? was stupid and pointless, so did a lot of mathematicians.https://nyti.ms/2YKDk9f
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We put people on the moon with PEMDAS. We created artificial intelligence with PEMDAS. It’s more important that anyone seems to understand.
“We go to the moon not because it is easy but because we have been drilled in PEMDAS! We will do this and all the other things like 8 ÷ 2(2+2) = ?”
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Never said it was a pretty math problem, or that any professional should ever write an expression like that. Just that there is still only one solution, when written in one line like it is. No matter how confused people are about it.
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If it’s pointless and useless, the answer to a “gotcha” question does not matter. You have your own blind assumptions, namely that all that matters is how it translates into a single line of computer code.
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