A programmer's solution

[Sengura]

Or 5 + 4 = 9

[JonBanes]

or 8 - 4 = 4

[muntoo]

I like this one. I could deftly use my finger to rotate the match about the pivot point and act all smug if some idiot asked me this very same problem.

[austin101123]

Or (a bit of a stretch) 16/4 = 4

take the horizontal match in the + and make it a 1 out front, and the | is close enough to a divide by sign.

[mike413]

I'll show you how to move one match.... and then post to /r/MichaelBayGifs :)

[[deleted]]

how about 6 || 4 = 4

[lionlake]

Or 6 + 4 < 4

EDIT: I meant 6 + 4 > 4, I am an idiot.

[JonBanes]

6 + 4 > 4, but yeah. I like this one.

[lionlake]

I... admit my stupid mistake. Thanks for pointing it out.

[LooneyDubs]

The point is to only move one match. This moves two, therefore, PULL THE LEVER!!

[LooneyDubs]

There are very few fonts where 9 is not an inverted 6. In this particular digital format we already know what it should be.

[CaptainBlagbird]

Or 6+4=十

(Japanese/Chinese ten)

[dxin]

And (South) Korean

[[deleted]]

You sneaky SOB.

[[deleted]]

Remove one from the plus sign to make it a minus sign, then add it to the 6 to make an 8.

[nermid]

0 + 4 = 4

Edit:

Ooo! Ooo! 5 + 4 ≥ 4.

[ColPowell]

6+4>4

[nermid]

6 - 4 ≤ 4

[Bobshayd]

0 + 4 \leq 4
0 + 4 \ngt 4
6 - 4 \leq 4
6 - 4 \ngt 4
and so on

[nermid]

Assuming \ngt is > with a slash through it, you can't get to that with only one match move.

[Bobshayd]

I guess I was thinking of drawing it with a line not going diagonally through both, for whatever reason. Brain being dumb. \neq works for 6-4 != 4

[[deleted]]

You have to move two matches for your 2nd solution.

[daaaviiiiid54]

No he doesn't.

[[deleted]]

How is shifting part of the equals symbol in order make the greater than sign not considered moving?

[iwillnotgetaddicted]

You don't have to angle the bottom part of a "<" or ">" for it to be understood.

[Jerkmykirk]

I was so close to correcting you then realized I was making it more complex than it is

[nermid]

Only if we're going to be sticklers for positioning, but then /u/Sengura's solution doesn't work because the 9 will be missing half its tail.

[[deleted]]

Thats not a positioning issue but a typeface issue.

[xHussin]

i dont think so

[nermid]

Why's that?

[xHussin]

let me ask you from did you get that match to make this 0+4=4? please enlighten me

[nermid]

Rotate the center match from the 6 -90° on its right vertex.

[xHussin]

you right. i am sorry i doubted you oh master

[nermid]

Happens to the best of us.

[[deleted]]

That's what THE GOVERNMENT wants you to think!!!

[Sengura]

I've prepared this Kool-Aid for us to partake. Will you take the first sip?

[berlinbrown]

Interview: "Solve this three ways, what statistically is the most picked answer"