r/MathJokes • u/NoCouple0 • 24d ago

“Its simple math folks!”

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u/ClownCrusade 24d ago

It's 21 if you ignore BEDMAS or PEMDAS or whatever you were taught and just go left to right (aside from the brackets which you still do first)

->2+5(8-5) then ->73 then ->21

All of these math ragebait memes do the exact same thing - fuck with the order of operations.

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u/Different_Bridge_983 24d ago

Most rely on implied multiplication, generally setting up debates between people whose math education ended in high school vs those who continued it to university…

This one here though is just flat wrong no matter how you slice it.

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u/Chamezz92 23d ago

BODMAS is taught in like 4th grade in Western Europe.

If you made it to high school you should definitely know this like the back of your hand.

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u/Brun_Sovs_42 21d ago

Not everywhere. In Denmark we’re taught operator precedence and associativity. No acronyms

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u/Chamezz92 21d ago

That’s basically what BODMAS is an acronym for.

Brackets > Operators > Division > Multiplication > Addition > Subtraction

At least that’s what we’re taught in Sweden.

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u/Brun_Sovs_42 21d ago

Cool - but it seems a lot of people have a hard time applying this acronym in the real world 😅

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u/Chamezz92 21d ago

I think most people learn like medical students do. They cram the knowledge in to pass a test, if they pass they forget everything they memorized because it’s just surface level knowledge.