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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (4 children)

It's hilarious seeing all the genius commenters who didn't read the linked article and are repeating all the exact answers and arguments that the article rebuts :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I'm still not used to having combined image and text posts so I usually don't notice the text portion if it isn't a big ol' wall and I hope I'm not the only one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

you are so sure that you are right and already “know it all”, why bother and even read this? There is no comment section to argue.

he made a mistake posting this to a comment section, now he must pay the price

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

❤️ True, but I think one of the biggest problems is that it's pretty long and because you can't really sense how good/bad/convining the text is it's always a gamble for everybody if it's worth reading something for 30min just to find out that the content is garbage.

I hope I did a decent job in explaining the issue(s) but I'm definitely not mad if someone decides that they are not going to read the post and still comment about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

No, it doesn't. It never talks about Terms, nor The Distributive Law (which isn't the same thing as the Distributive Property). These are the 2 rules of Maths which make this 100% not ambiguous.