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Simple Math Problem Drove Our Entire Staff Insane. Can You Solve It?

• cdaringe 4y ago
  Pleasant entertainment. If you want the TLDR, scroll through the most ads riddled page you’ve ever visited and find a concise summary at the bottom, after 10 drillion trackers monitor your every touch and scroll.
• trinovantes 4y ago
  This is why the division sign is not used in math classes past elementary school if nothing else other than to remove ambiguity
• raxxorraxor 4y ago
  16 is what a machine should calculate. There cannot be ambiguity about it. Fight me now.
• exclipy 4y ago
  Regular people spend a whole afternoon debating this. The hacker news crowd yawns at a debate about semantics.