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Yeah I know that. But I was feeling confused as to why it was here. That's why I was feeling trolled, because it made me doubt basic math for being posted in a memes community.
They did the joke wrong. To do it right you need to use the ÷ symbol. Because people never use that after they learn fractions, people treat things like a + b ÷ c + d as
Or (a + b) ÷ (c + d) when they should be treating it as a + (b ÷ c) + d.
That's the most common one of these "troll math" tricks. Because notating as
Is much more common and useful. So people get used to grouping everything around the division operator as if they're in parentheses.
Treat
a + b/c + dasa + b/(c + d)I can almost understand, I was guilty of doing that in school with multiplication, but auto-parenthesising the first part is really crazy take, imoNo don't. That rule was changed more than 130 years ago. a+b/c+d=a+(b/c)+d, Division before Addition