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Why 6/2(1+2) is unanswerable... sort of →

Added on April 11, 2013 by Tom Cramond.

Seen that Facebook maths problem being posted around? It turns out the fights about the correct answer may have some grounding:

So that brings us back to 6 ÷ 2(1+2). There are three ways to think about this problem—and none is incorrect. (If you don’t believe me, plug it into a few different calculators, or even check out Google, where commenters have argued over Google’s calculator answer.)

 TL,DR: BIMDAS/PEMDAS is correct, but so are the other methods

In Science Tags Maths, Facebook, BIMDAS, PEMDAS
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