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 :)

  • fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 months ago

    Entering symbols one by one into a calculator is a fundamentally different process from writing them in a sentence.

    Citation needed.

    No but seriously, why do you think it necessarily needs to be different? There are calculators that use actual fraction notation and all that

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      9 months ago

      It’s not that it needs to be different, it’s that it is. The fact that there are calculators with fractional notation is completely irrelevant.