https://zeta.one/viral-math/

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 :)

  • unable to agree on an universal standard for anything

    And yet the order of operations rules have been agreed upon for at least 100 years, possibly at least 400 years.

    unscientific and completely ridiculous reason refuse to read

    The fact that I saw it was wrong in the first paragraph is a ridiculous reason to not read the rest?

    Let me just tell you one last time: you’re wrong

    And let me point out again you have yet to give a single reason for that statement, never mind any actual evidence.

    you should know that it’s possible that you’re wrong

    You know proofs, by definition, can’t be wrong, right? There are proofs in my thread, unless you have some unscientific and completely ridiculous reason to refuse to read - to quote something I recently heard someone say.

    try not to ruin your students too hard

    My students? Oh, they’re doing good. Thanks for asking! :-) BTW the test included order of operations.