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minus-squarevaguerant@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoI understand why this is wrong (order of operations dictates the division happens first, so it’s really 25 - 1 = 24), but why is it funny? I don’t mean “This isn’t funny,” I think I’m just missing the joke.
minus-squareThekingoflorda@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-22 months ago4! Is meant to be 4 factorial. 4! = 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 24
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoOr if you don’t know order of operations, then you probably also don’t know factorials, so 20 / 5 = 4
minus-squareEyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoAnd here I was thinking I was still decent at math. I got bamboozled…
minus-squareNotProLemmy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoEverybody forgets the factorial…
minus-squareSzyler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoI always get a chuckle every time someone posted this in an unrelated comment.
minus-squarePotatoLibre@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoCause math people has a weird humor?
minus-squaredon@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoThe exclamation point in the answer, from a math perspective, makes it 4 factorial: 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 24, which is the correct answer.
I understand why this is wrong (order of operations dictates the division happens first, so it’s really 25 - 1 = 24), but why is it funny? I don’t mean “This isn’t funny,” I think I’m just missing the joke.
4! Is meant to be 4 factorial. 4! = 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 24
Aha! Got it, thank you so much.
Or if you don’t know order of operations, then you probably also don’t know factorials, so 20 / 5 = 4
And here I was thinking I was still decent at math. I got bamboozled…
Everybody forgets the factorial…
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I always get a chuckle every time someone posted this in an unrelated comment.
Cause math people has a weird humor?
The exclamation point in the answer, from a math perspective, makes it 4 factorial: 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 24, which is the correct answer.