A little math test...

[Stewie]

How would you resolve this equation? Solve it anyway you want, but (a hint) this is from a computer's perspective.

1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1
1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1
1 + 1 x 0 + 1 = ?;

Edit: More than 90% of people get it wrong.

[Stewie]

Originally Posted by Fish

40.

I have to go, but you were right the first time. The answer is 30.

This was an exercise in how people see an equation vs. a computer (it sees no non-arithmetic characters).

Append each line with the previous line and you get:

1+1+1+11+1+1+1+11+1+1x0+1;

Math hierarchy says 1x0=0, then do the math left to right.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Stewie

I have to go, but you were right the first time. The answer is 30.

This was an exercise in how people see an equation vs. a computer (it sees no non-arithmetic characters).

Append each line with the previous line and you get:

1+1+1+11+1+1+1+11+1+1x0+1;

Math hierarchy says 1x0=0, then do the math left to right.

Great job Stewie, ****'s given still = ZERO...

[Stewie]

Originally Posted by DaFace

I only pretend to know how to code, but it'd puke in VBA. If I wrote:

x = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1
1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1
1 + 1 x 0 + 1

The first line would result in x =5 and the rest would fail syntax check.

I know it'd work in PHP and Javascript, though (which I pretend to muddle my way through from time to time).

This is probably true. VB has some weird syntax unto itself.

[Fish]

Well if it's really true to computer programming then multiplication would be represented by an asterix. No?

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Fish

Well if it's really true to computer programming then multiplication would be represented by an asterix. No?

Heh - good point.

[Stewie]

Originally Posted by Rausch

Great job Stewie, ****'s given still = ZERO...

Sorry if I offended. This was just some fun for people who like numbers, math, computers.

[NinerDoug]

1?

[Stewie]

Originally Posted by Fish

Well if it's really true to computer programming then multiplication would be represented by an asterix. No?

I think everyone knows that those are interchangeable.

[J Diddy]

Just looking at it...1

If I'm wrong who cares?

Not like the world of a social worker is ever going to come across this in real life.

[Hydrae]

From a truly computer perspective (binary so 11 = 3 decimal), the answer would be 14 or 1110.

[Sully]

Here

[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by Sully

Here

[NJChiefsFan]

Originally Posted by Iconic

Good point. This is just a really shitty written PEMDAS problem. It can be interpreted as either:

1+1+1+1+11+1+1+1+11+1x0+1 = ?

or

1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 x 0 + 1 = ?

Yes. Either way it certainly isn't 1. Not sure why somebody got so mad that it isn't. Once we start talking code it it goes out of my comfort zone.

[scho63]

All these kids say ONE! I agree!

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