6÷2(3)

[gaminggriffin]

I don't even... WHAT THOSE ALL THIS MEAN!!! :blink:

[pseudobio]

from a non-math oriented individual, I gather from this exercise that even an explicitly ordered and objective operation such as number crunching can be very subjective since each of us respond to information from different perspectives. Quite simply, each of our brains is wired differently, and it shows up in how we perceive the data we take in daily.

[phoneyLogic]

antonkr, on 14 Feb 2013 - 05:31, said:

Quite simple, or is it?

 

6÷2(3)

If you are going to be really really basic, then I'd say this is not a valid expression or at least a bad mathematical expression. A bracket alone is no mathematical operation. You probably are missing the * right before the bracket. And you can leave the brackets, since they are pointless in this case.

 

You can define the case that if there's no operator between a digit and a term in a bracket (this is used e.g. between a term in brackets and a variable or higher operators), this actually means multiply. But the most common expression for this very basic operation would be:

 

6÷2*3

 

and there would be no doupt.

 

Writing a single number in brackets can be done, of cause, even so

 

((6)÷(2)*(3))

 

This may look fancy in some regards, but is not exactly needed to calculate the result. It just means the same, 9. Not exactly wrong, but a bad expression. Something easy made complicated.

Edited March 20, 2013 by tortured Tomato

[gaminggriffin]

I still don't get it?

[rizon72]

A friend of mine gave me the following equation, and stated that 50% of the people cannot solve it.

 

6 - 1 x 0 + 2 / 2 = ?

 

Its easy if you remember the rules.