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Originally Posted by romad
The WHOLE internet can not make a conclusion. Has nothing to do with the education system. They sell t-shirts with the equation on it as a question mark. Its a flawed equation. Its has been for years. Just like writing a bad sentence. 2 is no more correct than 288
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i also find interesting what this thread has brought up. in this thread and every other one, both sides have called upon either anecdotal evidence in form of "this person who i trust in math says it's ___" or computerized implementation evidence in form of "my ti-85 says its ____" or "this website says its _____" or "this programming language says its ____"
even the few arguments that have called into order of operations has clearly shown that even the same taught concepts have be interpreted incorrectly.
on the virtual internet, in the absence of math books that clearly spell out unchanging undisputed "the master rule", anyone can post up a webpage that claims that 48/2(9+3)=2 and can make it list high enough on google would have a legitimate shot of convincing other people that it IS in fact the truth. will it be really the future where the mob induced "truth" becomes the real truth?
according to our rennlist poll, the answer should be 2 by a factor of basically 3:2. if the margin were even wider...say 10:1, would it be possible that 2 be made the correct answer? are things like this up for democratic vote?