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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 :)

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[-] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I've seen a calculator interpret 1 ÷ 2π as ½π which was kinda funny

[-] wischi@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

All calculators that are listed in the article as following weak juxtaposition would interpreted it that way.

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