"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain) 05/08/2019 at 21:56 • Filed to: None

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Okay, I’ll bite on this math argument. The answer is nine. I too came out with 1 but that was my error. The reason for being 9: you have to revisit PEMDAS after each step.

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6 / 2 (1 + 2)

6 / 2 (3) <- There is implied multiplication between the 2 and 3. But that means you have an equation that is now only division and multiplication. The brackets are irrelevant . You’ve cancelled them out.

6 / 2 * 3

3 * 3

9

The big thing is, you’ve resolved the brackets when you added 1+2.

And since a trusty TI-83+ calculator agrees, I’m going with it.

Ash78, voting early and often > Nick Has an Exocet 05/08/2019 at 22:30

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WE LOVE (mofo) ROSES

That’s the key. If you’re ever doing database or spreadsheet functions, same deal.

I’ll admit I jumped straight to the “1” conclusion.

Wait, how the hell does Sacramento have a pro sports franchise? I never thought about that until now. 

for Michigan > Nick Has an Exocet 05/08/2019 at 22:31

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I was originally thinking “1", but after someone pointed out that the parenthesis mean nothing once their contents have been resolved I realize I was wrong. "9" is correct.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Nick Has an Exocet 05/08/2019 at 22:45

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This is why using / for division is dumb. It's way to hard to tell what's actually in the denominator.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Nick Has an Exocet 05/08/2019 at 22:47

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PEMDAS MOTHERFUCKERS DO YOU SPEAK IT

6/2*3 do the multiplication first then the division.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Nick Has an Exocet 05/08/2019 at 22:53

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Fuck PEMDAS, it’s always ambiguous. This is why I just put parentheses on EVERYTHING. I just use layers and layers of parentheses in all math problems to directly say what I want to happen.

It’s similar to how I think ROCK always wins in Rock, paper, scissors. No sissy paper is going to beat a rock. The strongest thing just beats everything. 

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Nick Has an Exocet 05/08/2019 at 22:53

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I still have my old TI-83 Plus . That was worth every penny.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 05/08/2019 at 22:54

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5th grade math is hard

Nick Has an Exocet > Ash78, voting early and often 05/08/2019 at 23:01

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Technically, it’s also the state capital. 

Nick Has an Exocet > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 05/08/2019 at 23:03

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Technically, it’s PE(MD)(AS) since multiple/divide have the same stack rank, so you do the first one from the left.

merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 05/09/2019 at 07:21

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Aw, you kids are cute,  I love how you say old, and TI-83 in the same sentence. They didn’t even have the 83 when I got my TI-81. Still have that one though. Love those old graphing calculators. :)

TorqueToYield > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 05/09/2019 at 08:29

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Which is why real math looks like:

Snuze: Needs another Swede > TorqueToYield 05/10/2019 at 08:38

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I took a combustion engineer theory course in undergrad, I probably solved that at some point.  

Clown Shoe Pilot > merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc 05/12/2019 at 01:18

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The TI graphing calculators didn’t come out until after I was thoroughly in the tank for HP. I had a TI-60 that I got good enough at programming that I could program it in the first few minutes of an exam after the teacher made everyone clear all the memory. I somehow managed to physically destroy that calculator and switched over to HP at the end of my sophomore year in high school. The changeover did not go smoothly. The first chemistry test I took w/ an HP RPN calculator was a disaster. Luckily, my teacher recognized that my problem was not w/ the subject matter , but rather that I couldn’t operate my calculator correctly and I got partial credit for every problem that I solved methodically correctly but F’d up the math.