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I beg to differ. You utter fool! You created a comment section yourself on lemmy and you are clearly wrong about everything!
You take the mean of 1 and 9 which is 4.5!
/j
🤣 I wasn't even sure if I should post it on lemmy. I mainly wrote it so I can post it under other peoples posts that actually are intended to artificially create drama to hopefully show enough people what the actual problems are with those puzzles.
But I probably am a fool and this is not going anywhere because most people won't read a 30min article about those math problems :-)
Actually the correct answer is clearly 0.2609 if you follow the order of operations correctly:
6/2(1+2)
= 6/23
= 0.26
Nah man, distribute the 2.
6/2(1+2)
= 6/2+4
= 3+4
= 7
This is like 4st grayed maff.
🤣 I'm not sure if you read the post but I also wrote about that (the paragraph right before "What about the real world?")
I did read the post (well done btw), but I guess I must have missed that. And here I thought I was a comedic genius
@relevants you truly are the smartest of all men
I did (skimmed it, at least) and I liked it. 🙃
Right, because 5 rounds down to 4.5
@Prunebutt meant 4.5! and not 4.5. Because it's not an integer we have to use the gamma function, the extension of the factorial function to get the actual mean between 1 and 9 => 4.5! = 52.3428 which looks about right 🤣
Not sure if sarcastic and woosh, or adding to the joke ಠ_ಠ
The mean of 1 and 9 is 5
woosh
I think you got hit hard by Poe's Law here. Except it's more like people couldn't tell if you were jokingly or genuinely getting your math wrong... Even after you explained you were joking lol
I thought the "/j" tone-tag was enough ;_;
jarcasm?
Joking
If one doesn't realize you're op, the entire thing can be interpreted very differently.
Then "Not sure if sarcastic and woosh, or adding to the joke ಠ_ಠ" could be interpreted as something like "I'm not sure if you are adding to the joke and I'm not understanding it".
Stop it Patrick, you're scaring them!
…Because 4 rounds up to 4.5