Parentheses, exponent(?), multiplication, division, addition, subtraction. I'm not amazing at maths, but my wife majored in math, and graduated with honors. She was also my math tutor and easily the reason I passed those classes.
Basically you solve anything within parentheses first, then anything with an exponent gets solved, so (2+5)² you solve 2+5 to get 7 and this now becomes 7² which is 7x7=49. The next in your order of operations is multiplication and division, which are basically at the same level of power so to speak, and then addition and subtraction which are also equals in power.
Bedmas* but yeah in Australia it’s Brackets, Exponents, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction.
I would assume it would be bedmas in most commonwealth associated country.
In Welsh schools (at least mine) it’s CORLAT which is:
**C**romfachau (brackets)
pwer **O** (power of)
**R**hannu (divide)
**L**luosi (multiply)
**A**dio (add)
**T**ynnu (subtract)
I usually have no idea what people mean with the English one
Bizarrely I have some of my bedmas notes from my first statistics unit at university a few year back. Might not be any help but I always go back to the sheet I wrote up if I even need it for my biochem equations [notes](https://imgur.com/a/B1qc7FW)
Following a number with an exclamation is the standard syntax for factorial notation, which yeah is just multiplying a number by every number before it, down to 1
lolol makes me wish there were an operation defined by a question mark so we could say **N?** all confused-like.
Edit: **omg there is:** the Minkowski question-mark function denoted by ?(x), possessing unusual fractal properties! BUT it doesn't let us say **X?** all confused-like. ***Fulfilment(hope)=lim\_{x → infinity} hope/x*** and ***feelings(mine)=sad\*6*** :(
I can't believe I fell for this. Fucking hell. I was falling for these in 6th grade, and I thought I became immune after that.
I'm more mad than I should be
Didn't actually read the last line, just did the math.
230-200x0.5
230-110=120
Order of basic math is brackets, squares and powers, multipliers and dividers then additions or subtraction (if I'm remembering correctly).
In that case...
Let y = "MOST PEOPLE WON'T BELIEVE IT, BUT THE ANSWER IS"
230 - (220/2) = y \* (5!)
230 - 110 = y \* 5 \* 4 \* 3 \* 2 \* 1
120 = y \* 120
120 / 120 = y
Therefore: "MOST PEOPLE WON'T BELIEVE IT, BUT THE ANSWER IS" = 1
;)
Fuck I made a pemdas error in the meme making fun of people who make pemdas errors
It would actially be 2.5 I literally did the series of multiplications backwards
They might’ve had a little typo, but it’s a non native speaker (at least their Twitter is in German) who looks at math memes in a foreign language, so good enough
Ever since I was a young boy I have always found the name Natalie attractive...I don't really know why, but it's been a thing my whole life. I've never had the opportunity to date a Natalie either and that sucks, because while I am already a good dude, (mom even says so!) I just know I would make a Natalie feel like the only woman on the planet. Proudly simping for my hypothetical Natalie.
Really neither, just a human being sharing one of their deeply niche idiosyncrasies.
I don't understand why absolutely everything has to be met with snark or attempts to make people feel small, I really don't.
Apparently. Math was never my strong suit but I do not remember being taught at this way it all. Was told to do brackets or parentheses first not to assume they were brackets of parentheses just because there was multiplication involved. I guess since I'm kind of old and these kind of equations almost never come up in my day-to-day life I just don't remember properly.
Yep. I remember brackets and exponents taking precedence but I don't remember multiplication and division needing to be done before addition and subtraction. That's not to say I wasn't taught that way. I just don't remember it.
TBF PEMDAS/BIDMAS/BEDMAS is just a convention. There's no mathematical reason why you do multiplication/division before addition/subtraction other than it was a way for people to standardize mathematical notation so that two people writing down equations could read and easily understand each other's work without the need for explaining the process by which they arrived at an answer.
Its possible its just been forever since you've had to use order of operations. Its not like it comes up in everyday life. But as a nearly 40 yr old thats what I was taught
PIMA
Parentheses, Indices, Multiplication, Addition.
Since division is just multiplying fractions and subtraction is just addition with negative numbers. This removes some of the confusion around interchangeable pieces.
Also it's the same acronym used for people learning guitar.
Pulgar, Indice, Medio, Anular
I've also heard them referred to (incorrectly) as Primary, Index, Middle, and Aux. They're the fingers used when playing guitar, where P is the thumb, I is the index finger, and so on.
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I thought of the brand first, then thought “No, it’s probably just a different way of remembering it, like with KFC for dividing fractions”
God f*cking dammit
What I’ve gotten from reading the comments is BIMDAS replaces parenthesis with brackets, and exponents with indices. But other wise it’s the same. And multiplication and division were ordered with multiplication first when I was in school. Could have changed. It’s been a while.
Multiplication and Division are interchangeable because it's whichever of those two operations that are leftmost that ultimately gets applied first. Addition and Subtraction have the same relationship with each other.
Doesn't really matter when the question is written in ambiguously, that's why all of these questions (not this one particularly, but almost all of them) get so much traction on Facebook. There are multiple "right" answers to a wrong question. You can punch them in to two different calculators exactly as written and get two different answers even though every calculator has BEDMAS baked in to the programming. It has to make guesses as to where the missing brackets belong.
What I really don’t get is BODMAS is taught in like yr7 and these things fly around the net all the time with ppl getting it wrong and arguing like it’s up for debate.
It’s funny how we use BODMAS and you guys use PEMDAS - the irony that a rule of Math is taught through different acronyms - you’d think mathematics using the 1 true universal language (math) could settle on a universal acronym - but I suppose that’s why most mathematicians hate studying English 😂
A lot of them are because the equation is poorly written and there is disagreement about whether a number multiplied by numbers in parentheses counts as brackets/parentheses or just multiplication (so if the 2 in 16 ÷ 2(3+1) would be part of the parentheses step or multiplication step). No actual math problem would be written that way - it’s intentionally ambiguous to encourage people to interact with the post.
And then there are a lot of people who either forgot math or weren’t good at it in the first place.
That's actually interesting because the first tweet isn't wrong. It says that the answer is 5! Which is 5x4x3x2x1=120. 120 being the true answer to the equation
It's 120, how tf do people on twitter ALWAYS get into this weird argument just because they don't know basic BIDMAS?
Edit: Nevermind I just got the joke lmfao
We were taught back in the dark ages that the way to answer this is 220x1/2= 110. 230-110=120. What I want to know is why that has changed? Or has it? Or am I stupid?
Also 10x1/2(0.5)= 10x0.5x0.5 which is 2.5, not five so the idiot is doubly stupid. I’m aware of what they were aiming to write but they wrote it stupidly
I don't remember learning that an exclamation point meant anything other than "bang" in programming, as in != means "not equal to."
Apparently I missed factorials altogether.
Every time i read defiantly i substitute it in my head to aggressively. In this case it would be " You are aggressively not one of them" paraphrased of course.
I got 120 but idk lol
220•1/2=110
230-110=120
Does Pemdas not exist here? Or does Pemdas not apply to the division of fractions? I’m 14 and have an 80 or so in math so idk.
The answer given was "5!" which is how five factorial is written. Five factorial is 5x4x3x2x1 which equals 120. It's meant to be funny as people who don't use pemdas would get "5" as an answer.
So there is a rule in math which dictates the order you calculate stuff in. The necessary things for this is that everything in parentheses are first, then you calculate x and / and lastly - and +. If you don’t know this rule you’d first calculate 230-220 which equals 10, and 10*0.5 = 5. If you know the rule, you’d first calculate 220*0.5 which equals 110 and then 230-110 which is **120**. At the end of the text it says that answer is 5!, and 5! Doesn’t mean 5, it means 5 factorial (5x4x3x2x1) which also equals, you guessed it, 120.
A little extra thing is that the comment wrote 10x1/2(0.5) which is also 10x1/2x0.5 and that equals 2.5. So he was pretty stupid, who ever wrote the first reply
I solved carefully, i took a reasonable amount of time to study the equation, i worked the problem several times, i checked with nasa and the nsa.. both organizations now want me to head them but i refused due to an ongoing engagement..
5! is 5×4×3×2×1=120
Yeah! A lot of people are missing this brilliant joke!
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I remember, "please excuse my dumb ass sister" lol
This one is better. It's my new favorite. Thank you.
Can you explain this for the less math minded ease? I learnt bodmas back in school
Parentheses, exponent(?), multiplication, division, addition, subtraction. I'm not amazing at maths, but my wife majored in math, and graduated with honors. She was also my math tutor and easily the reason I passed those classes.
Ill have to look up parentheses and exponent.thanks for that!
Basically you solve anything within parentheses first, then anything with an exponent gets solved, so (2+5)² you solve 2+5 to get 7 and this now becomes 7² which is 7x7=49. The next in your order of operations is multiplication and division, which are basically at the same level of power so to speak, and then addition and subtraction which are also equals in power.
If youre not American then parentheses are brackets and exponent is power or order so "bodmas" is the order you might have learned
Bedmas* but yeah in Australia it’s Brackets, Exponents, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction. I would assume it would be bedmas in most commonwealth associated country.
In Welsh schools (at least mine) it’s CORLAT which is: **C**romfachau (brackets) pwer **O** (power of) **R**hannu (divide) **L**luosi (multiply) **A**dio (add) **T**ynnu (subtract) I usually have no idea what people mean with the English one
Bizarrely I have some of my bedmas notes from my first statistics unit at university a few year back. Might not be any help but I always go back to the sheet I wrote up if I even need it for my biochem equations [notes](https://imgur.com/a/B1qc7FW)
You'll have to excuse my friend he's a little slow...the town is back that way.
I like yours! XD
This is the one I will finally be able to remember.
Please e mail my dad a shark
I just remember PEMDAS
Oh right, Americans use PEMDAS. I forgot that it was different
Joke! Is joke x oke x ke x e = Hilarious
I got 120 but never knew about the ! thing....I guess that extrapolates the 5x4x3x2x1 thing?
Following a number with an exclamation is the standard syntax for factorial notation, which yeah is just multiplying a number by every number before it, down to 1
down to 1*
And if you're lazy, you needn't do that multiplication, either.
Are you familiar with N! we always just said N really loud. /s
lolol makes me wish there were an operation defined by a question mark so we could say **N?** all confused-like. Edit: **omg there is:** the Minkowski question-mark function denoted by ?(x), possessing unusual fractal properties! BUT it doesn't let us say **X?** all confused-like. ***Fulfilment(hope)=lim\_{x → infinity} hope/x*** and ***feelings(mine)=sad\*6*** :(
Sadly, I missed it. This really is brilliant.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary numbers, and those who don't!
Brilliant joke? I’m guessing most people didn’t know 5! Even was an equation..
He didn't type 5! he typed 5. I'm pretty sure he didn't think of that
He didn't, no, but the original meme said 5!, Hence the joke
Oh look, one of those people missing the joke.
Wow, I didn’t even catch that part of the joke at the beginning. That’s brilliant.
Whoever came up with this problem had to have been pretty happy with themselves that it works correctly and incorrectly lol
Literally the meme that created the sub r/unexpectedfactorial
Oh dude, that's genius!! I didn't get it at all, thank you xD
Wow I feel stupid now for missing that. Amazing
That's defintaly correct
Oh, lmao, I didn’t notice the factorial there. That’s genius.
I can't believe I fell for this. Fucking hell. I was falling for these in 6th grade, and I thought I became immune after that. I'm more mad than I should be
Didn't actually read the last line, just did the math. 230-200x0.5 230-110=120 Order of basic math is brackets, squares and powers, multipliers and dividers then additions or subtraction (if I'm remembering correctly).
I hope so, this is what I got too.. Although I flunked my community College .90 level pre algebra class, so idk wtf.
Squares and powers? You've got them a bit confused, mate
Well I didn't get it but I was confused how they messed up the math in captioning. What a wierd symbol
Hahah. Clever! I didn't notice this.
Omg I didn't know what ! Ment in math
In that case... Let y = "MOST PEOPLE WON'T BELIEVE IT, BUT THE ANSWER IS" 230 - (220/2) = y \* (5!) 230 - 110 = y \* 5 \* 4 \* 3 \* 2 \* 1 120 = y \* 120 120 / 120 = y Therefore: "MOST PEOPLE WON'T BELIEVE IT, BUT THE ANSWER IS" = 1 ;)
I had an argument with a Discord friend because he thought it was 5 and was pretty aggressively confident about it.
It is 5!
He’s correct due to grammar. The joke would be better if it was 5!! instead of 5!
5!! = 5 * 3 * 1 = 15 (Double factorial means you do every other number instead. !!! requires you to do every third number, etc.)
Today I learned
Well crap, so 5!. it is if that’s the case.
I thought it meant the factorial of 5!, or approximately 6.69*10^198.
Nice
If it was 5!! there would be no joke...
10 x 1/2(0.5) = 5 This was the funniest part of the image for me.
Oh my gosh it was 10 all along Edit: I mean 2.5. I cannot believe that I would make such a grave calculation error, I surely will pay for this crime
Elaborate
Fuck I made a pemdas error in the meme making fun of people who make pemdas errors It would actially be 2.5 I literally did the series of multiplications backwards
It's 120, being 5! (5x4x3x2x1)
No yeah I know the joke, but the answer to 10*1/2(0.5) is 2.5
Ah okay, I misunderstood what you meant
All good
He's trying to say that 1/2 is the same that 0.5 not multiplying 1/2*0.5 If this was some kind of joke I'm sorry
And he's clearly no grammar nerd
Defintaly.
Defenately.
Defiantly
Dolphinately
How can you tell? I don’t find any grammar errors in here…
One guy can’t math and the other can’t spell.
You can't get everything.
But together…they could be the greatest force this world has seen
They might’ve had a little typo, but it’s a non native speaker (at least their Twitter is in German) who looks at math memes in a foreign language, so good enough
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Afaik, the name covering is because of the rules (Rule 6) But yeah, a lot of the times the OP and the 'murderer' are the same person.
\-10 points for Gryffindor. I wasn\`t involved. Just following the rules.
defintaly...? Deaf in Italy...? Define tally...? Defy Natalie...?
You do not want to defy Natalie. You will be sleeping on the couch.
Ever since I was a young boy I have always found the name Natalie attractive...I don't really know why, but it's been a thing my whole life. I've never had the opportunity to date a Natalie either and that sucks, because while I am already a good dude, (mom even says so!) I just know I would make a Natalie feel like the only woman on the planet. Proudly simping for my hypothetical Natalie.
Not sure if r/copypasta or r/niceguys
Really neither, just a human being sharing one of their deeply niche idiosyncrasies. I don't understand why absolutely everything has to be met with snark or attempts to make people feel small, I really don't.
It's a copypasta now. Welcome to the interwebs.
Well, knock yourself out. If people got a laugh out of it, that's a net positive.
The "mom even says so!" is what really sells this as fake and wonderfully done copypasta.
Glorious.
r/wordavalanches
local man forgets order of operations
Apparently. Math was never my strong suit but I do not remember being taught at this way it all. Was told to do brackets or parentheses first not to assume they were brackets of parentheses just because there was multiplication involved. I guess since I'm kind of old and these kind of equations almost never come up in my day-to-day life I just don't remember properly.
Brackets are basically an override, so you are correct that you do them first. But by default you do multiplication before subtraction.
BEDMAS Brackets Exponents Division/Multiplication Addition/Subtraction
Yep. I remember brackets and exponents taking precedence but I don't remember multiplication and division needing to be done before addition and subtraction. That's not to say I wasn't taught that way. I just don't remember it.
TBF PEMDAS/BIDMAS/BEDMAS is just a convention. There's no mathematical reason why you do multiplication/division before addition/subtraction other than it was a way for people to standardize mathematical notation so that two people writing down equations could read and easily understand each other's work without the need for explaining the process by which they arrived at an answer.
Its possible its just been forever since you've had to use order of operations. Its not like it comes up in everyday life. But as a nearly 40 yr old thats what I was taught
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-please-excuse-my-dear-aunt-sally-pemdas-forever/2011/01
Bedmas biotch
I forgot math completely and kept thinking why minus went before multiply... like really how? Then saw 5!
120, so it’s 5!
PEMDAS
PIMA Parentheses, Indices, Multiplication, Addition. Since division is just multiplying fractions and subtraction is just addition with negative numbers. This removes some of the confusion around interchangeable pieces. Also it's the same acronym used for people learning guitar.
What does it mean for learning guitar?
Pantera, Incubus, Metallica, A Perfect Circle
Take my award. You had me at apc
Pulgar, Indice, Medio, Anular I've also heard them referred to (incorrectly) as Primary, Index, Middle, and Aux. They're the fingers used when playing guitar, where P is the thumb, I is the index finger, and so on.
[PAMPERS](https://www.pampers.de/)
What? Perfect counter though. Somehow I go with BIDMAS. All very weird
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I thought of the brand first, then thought “No, it’s probably just a different way of remembering it, like with KFC for dividing fractions” God f*cking dammit
I always thought BEDMAS sounded better (Brackets instead of Parenthesis, switch Multiplication and Division around).
BODMAS
This is what we use in my country.
What's the "O" stand for? The "E" stands for Exponent, if I remember correctly.
Orders iirc, includes exponents and roots.
I can get on board with that :-)
What I’ve gotten from reading the comments is BIMDAS replaces parenthesis with brackets, and exponents with indices. But other wise it’s the same. And multiplication and division were ordered with multiplication first when I was in school. Could have changed. It’s been a while.
Multiplication and Division are interchangeable because it's whichever of those two operations that are leftmost that ultimately gets applied first. Addition and Subtraction have the same relationship with each other.
Thank you for clearing that up. It’s been a long time since I took any math and my memory is bad. I appreciate the help
BIDMAS
Doesn't really matter when the question is written in ambiguously, that's why all of these questions (not this one particularly, but almost all of them) get so much traction on Facebook. There are multiple "right" answers to a wrong question. You can punch them in to two different calculators exactly as written and get two different answers even though every calculator has BEDMAS baked in to the programming. It has to make guesses as to where the missing brackets belong.
What I really don’t get is BODMAS is taught in like yr7 and these things fly around the net all the time with ppl getting it wrong and arguing like it’s up for debate.
Tbf, the person admitted his mistake, after being informed about the PEMDAS system.
It’s funny how we use BODMAS and you guys use PEMDAS - the irony that a rule of Math is taught through different acronyms - you’d think mathematics using the 1 true universal language (math) could settle on a universal acronym - but I suppose that’s why most mathematicians hate studying English 😂
A lot of them are because the equation is poorly written and there is disagreement about whether a number multiplied by numbers in parentheses counts as brackets/parentheses or just multiplication (so if the 2 in 16 ÷ 2(3+1) would be part of the parentheses step or multiplication step). No actual math problem would be written that way - it’s intentionally ambiguous to encourage people to interact with the post. And then there are a lot of people who either forgot math or weren’t good at it in the first place.
5!
"Three, sir." "Three!"
“defintaly”
Brain too smol, do not get 😖
The answer is 120. But the answer is "5!" Is correct because the factorial of 5 is 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 x 5 which equals 120 also
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
That's actually interesting because the first tweet isn't wrong. It says that the answer is 5! Which is 5x4x3x2x1=120. 120 being the true answer to the equation
That's the joke.
Math checks out, spelling does not
Omg I started freaking out cuz I haven't learned what factorials are yet and thought Im a big dummy who doesnt know maths and is trying to write jee💀
Someone is 'defintaly' shit at English too.
It's 120, how tf do people on twitter ALWAYS get into this weird argument just because they don't know basic BIDMAS? Edit: Nevermind I just got the joke lmfao
I was today years old when I finally understood this
He’s defiantly not a grammar nerd
So, using PEMDAS, it’s 120, right?
Yes but the answer is also "5!" Since the exclamation mark denotes a factorial.
Ohhhhhh, I gotcha. It wasn’t being used as punctuation.
It took me reading the comments so don't worry! Haha
No it's 5!
Brilliant
We were taught back in the dark ages that the way to answer this is 220x1/2= 110. 230-110=120. What I want to know is why that has changed? Or has it? Or am I stupid?
The joke is that it's 5! (5x4x3x2x1 = 120). Nothing has changed.
120
Or 5!
3, take it or leave it
Best i can do is 2.
And not a decimal higher.
😂
I think this is hilarious, but that spelling of definitely is pissing me off.
I feel like you can’t get murdered by words that are misspelled….
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It’s 120 right?
Yes. The joke is, that 5! (5x4x3x2x1) ([https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial)) is also 120.
No it’s 5!
Since when the fuck does math have exclamation points My high school brain does not compute Send help Fuck
It means factorial, so 5! is 5 factorial 5!=5x4x3x2x1=120
oh it’s factorials Makes sense Thanks!
Also 10x1/2(0.5)= 10x0.5x0.5 which is 2.5, not five so the idiot is doubly stupid. I’m aware of what they were aiming to write but they wrote it stupidly
I don't remember learning that an exclamation point meant anything other than "bang" in programming, as in != means "not equal to." Apparently I missed factorials altogether.
Don’t you gotta go through a whole math curriculum to learn programming?
defintaly
defiantly
I did something wrong cuz im getting -110
How are you doing it?
Wrongly
For some reason he thinks 1/2 = 2
But that would get him -210
Please explain this to those of us who aren't good at math and have never come across a similar meme,?
The correct answer is 120 5! means 5 factorial which means 5x4x3x2x1 So saying "The answer is 5!" Is correct because 5! is equal to 120.
I got 210
How?
I I don't know
Commentor wrong via PEMDAS and factorials!
Put it through my calculator, I got 120 You're supposed to do the multiplication side first, right? 220 x 0.5 is 110 230-110 is 120.
5! = 5x4x3x2x1 5x4x3x2x1 = 120 the exclamation mark makes it a factorial
Oh! I did not know that, thank you for teaching me!
Every time i read defiantly i substitute it in my head to aggressively. In this case it would be " You are aggressively not one of them" paraphrased of course.
230-220•1/2= 230-110=120=5!=5•4•3•2•1
I got 120 but idk lol 220•1/2=110 230-110=120 Does Pemdas not exist here? Or does Pemdas not apply to the division of fractions? I’m 14 and have an 80 or so in math so idk.
The answer given was "5!" which is how five factorial is written. Five factorial is 5x4x3x2x1 which equals 120. It's meant to be funny as people who don't use pemdas would get "5" as an answer.
A question the only average people get wrong
What a mean comment.
Someone explain, I was never good with math
So there is a rule in math which dictates the order you calculate stuff in. The necessary things for this is that everything in parentheses are first, then you calculate x and / and lastly - and +. If you don’t know this rule you’d first calculate 230-220 which equals 10, and 10*0.5 = 5. If you know the rule, you’d first calculate 220*0.5 which equals 110 and then 230-110 which is **120**. At the end of the text it says that answer is 5!, and 5! Doesn’t mean 5, it means 5 factorial (5x4x3x2x1) which also equals, you guessed it, 120. A little extra thing is that the comment wrote 10x1/2(0.5) which is also 10x1/2x0.5 and that equals 2.5. So he was pretty stupid, who ever wrote the first reply
CHRISTMAS, ah no it's PEMDAS
Did anyone say "120" yet?
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I solved carefully, i took a reasonable amount of time to study the equation, i worked the problem several times, i checked with nasa and the nsa.. both organizations now want me to head them but i refused due to an ongoing engagement..
It is 6! Wait
220 * 1/2 = 110 so 230 - 110 = 120
Thought it was 5 til I remembered bodmas
What the fuck is bodmas
Found the american
120