it equals 2 Fitty :Graucho

All we have really learned is that there are a lot of people on GFY who don't know basic math and that Frank is some kind of genius.

The answer is either 1, 41 or 81. I dont need to know anymore than that. lols

a lot of people here should never ever complain about ratios again. If they do, sponsors should pull this thread.

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great thread Franck :thumbsup

I know...

I dont remember much from school,but i remember order of operations very good,and how if you wanted to calculate differently you need to use brackets.

most of yall are some GIANT intellectual pussies.
NO ONE EVER DIED from admitting to being wrong. here, watch. I'll go first.

when i first looked at the title, i of course thought the answer was 1.
but then when someone came in and explained the actual order things go in with math, i realized the mistake i had made and now i see that the answer is 41.

see?
i was wrong.
i admitted it.
I STILL DRAW BREATH.


fuckers.

A cautionary tale for anyone that didn't say 41 ...

A friend's sister was lucky enough to win a big screen TV in a contest a couple of years ago. I'm not sure if it's just Canada, but here you have to answer a skill-testing question to win a prize, just a simple little math question anyone could answer, but it's a legal technicality that means you got the prize by using skill to earn it. The question she had to answer was something along these lines, with a "+" and a "x", and she didn't use order of operations, answered it WRONG and didn't get her prize.

So if you didn't answer 41, please brush up on your grade 6 math or you never know what you might miss out on !!!

I forwarded this thread to CERN. They told me the answer is actually: who really gives a single fuck.

Yeah, but you don't know how much a billion is, so meh.

The answer is 1.

I like sausages.

Still???? :helpme

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(turns out I have 2 mates who teach maths)

Teacher #1: got taught it in school, teaches it

Teacher #2: didn't get taught it in school, teaches it

So fuck knows why some were and some weren't :1orglaugh

i cant believe how many people get this wrong

i feel sorry for you guys :(

i know the answer to the meaning of life is 42, if that helps.

it would have been amusing if that hadnt been mentioned like 5 times now

My son studying to become a web programmer says it's 41

(shit hope he's right:Oh crap:1orglaugh)

40 + 40 x 0 + 1= an ambiguous equation

40 +(40 x 0) + 1 = 41
(40+40) x 0 + 1 = 1
40 + 40 x (0 + 1) = 80

No, it's not.

Why is that? I have to be honest, it is an equation (theory) that I do not recall ever having to use in real life.


It is that, and I had not even thought of the 80 equation.

No, it's not ambigious. That's the whole point of the order of operations rules.

We aren't in the 17th century..today we use brackets.

We use brackets when they're needed. In this case they are not needed. How do you know brackets are done first? Because they're covered in the order of operations. This stuff is taught every day to middle school children in this century. If you don't want to believe me that's fine, but you're just being silly. There's nothing ambigious about this equation.

http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/v...perations.html

it's not about "fashion" or when was done what...

with or without brackets it simply makes it two different equations

I know because I have a degree in mechanical engineering. I took math classes for 9 semesters. Every freshmen gets that order of operations gag from a professor with a sense of humor. Turn in a paper with an equation written without proper brackets and you fail. There is a reason we have been using brackets for the last 400 years.

I give up, you win.

you took math classes for 9 semesters and you're wrong

40 +(40 x 0) + 1 = 41
(40+40) x 0 + 1 = 1
40 + 40 x (0 + 1) = 80

this is all cool but

40 + 40 x 0 + 1 = 41

and that's with no brackets, as written.

is there a rule that says you need to add brackets? please point me to that math rule, here is the one that says im right

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations

looks like you learned wrong, broseph, time to admit you were wrong and learn from your mistake

No. I have a degree in computer science and a degree in math.

It's not an ambiguous equation.

There's no ambiguity there. Absolutely bloody none.

There's no gag in there, this shit is taught in middle school. You would not fail a paper if you handed in an equation with no brackets when it's as obvious as this one. In fact you'd probably get marks docked off for putting brackets into something bloody obvious as this.

Fuck's sakes.

title Computer sez 41
dosseg
.model small
.stack 100h
.data
da_result db '41',0dh,0ah,'$'
.code
main proc
mov ax,@data
mov ds,ax
mov ah,9
mov dx,offset da_result
int 21h
mov ax,4C00h
int 21h
main endp
end main

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I love it how everyone is so sure they are right and call other people idiots.

http://www.iheartfunny.com/uploads/p...1312488110.jpg

http://verydemotivational.files.word...-if-troll1.jpg

IT's 41 :))
When we don't have parentheses, we have this rule: 1. multiply 2. addition
i loveeeee maaathh :-)))

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Either most of you are just kidding/trolling or COMPLETE DUMBFUCKS
How can you NOT KNOW the right answer?!! Just how?
Did you go to school? First graders know the answer... I hope you're just joking around. Otherwise it's so fucked up

It is not ambiguous.

If you studied 9 semesters of maths, how did you pass?

I studied Maths in Cambridge, so it's illegal for me to participate in this thread :winkwink:

That's what everyone says eventhough they all have a different answer :)

I know right... Still it's CRAZY
That's why I'm not even giving my answer... I'm too shocked to see this happening... I can't believe I see a group of adults arguing about this easiest task ever

I'm gonna calm myself down and believe it's all jokes

Franck, Congrats on your new Ipad 2 :1orglaugh

It's clear that there are a lot of GFY posters that are probably in middle school or just recently out of it. I graduated from college in the early 1980's. And during that era this equation was exactly what I already typed. It was a joke for freshmen engineers. If computer sciences have made that equation acceptable today I wouldn't be aware of it.

I must have been just lucky. And for the 30 years since I graduated the luck never ended. Every year my manufacturing companies continue to grow and make profits.

i got a degree in trolling and approve this thread