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  • ramble81@lemmy.ziptoMath Memes@lemmy.blahaj.zone<3
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    5 days ago

    So with people who do order of operations incorrectly, you have 25-5 =20 and then divide it by 5 and you get 4.

    However the correct answer is 24 since you do the division first.

    Where the joke comes in is he states “4!”, which sounds like he is emphatic about the wrong answer. However an exclamation mark is “factorial” which translates to 4x3x2x1… which happens to equal the correct answer of 24.










  • I’ve always been torn on this choice. The baby doesn’t have any history, and frankly, you can always make another. But on the other hand the old lady has already lived most all of her life (well all of her life depending on this decision). I mean there isn’t a good answer unless you try to go for a two’fer