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 :)

  • Baggins [he/him]@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I read it. And I’m not a mathematician, so the answer is 9.

    E: The salty mathematicians down-voting this can get fucked lmfao

    • wischi@programming.devOP
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      1 year ago

      Ooh now I get you, sry. True. But sadly you now know the truth and you have to be careful with the implicit multiplications on your tax forms from now on ;-)