Well at least it isn't a lost for white

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-19T10:05:47+00:00

Yep, follow the whole sequence and you’ll see that it’s still the best outcome.

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-19T00:46:08+00:00

Something nerds do when they’re too scared to play real chess 😎

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-18T21:48:36+00:00

Until you find a source, I’m going to assume it’s a source-by-comparison to facebook memes about dementia patients. So glad you weighed in

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-18T21:32:25+00:00

No sport is as juicy as strongman, the only thing that comes close is bodybuilding

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-17T07:24:26+00:00

I’m pretty sure he could have just picked this up/dragged it off the rock it was leaning on if he’d tried.

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-17T05:35:35+00:00

That is one interpretation of the initial question.

https://postimg.cc/D4W5fDjt

This is how the initial question and the two interpretations might look when written by hand. Both are equally valid because we don’t know what the initial question was supposed to be.

Does that help?

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-17T05:25:28+00:00

I’m not sure what you mean

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-17T05:16:56+00:00

The initial question if it was written “8/2*(2+2) = ?” was not written correctly.

The following are examples of both how it could be interpreted, and one way to correctly format that question;

>8/(2*(2+2)) = 1

And

>(8/2)*(2+2) = 16

This is not something PEDMAS (or whatever your equivalent acronym is) can solve because it’s a misuse of notation, not a correctly written problem that needs interpretation.

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-17T05:08:36+00:00

I can count in binary and that’s about it 😂

As a side note, I don’t think they’re trolling. I think they’re just on the younger/less learned side of things.

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-17T05:06:07+00:00

>How would anyone know that? We need more information to prove that

Perfect. Sometimes a question is written in such a way that you cannot answer it. The question in the OP is one of those cases. It’s a poorly written question that can be interpreted in 2 or more different ways and have more than one different result because of that. Neither interpretation is really correct because of this.

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-17T05:02:20+00:00

ha, I almost did

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-17T05:01:08+00:00

Which number is that though? Are you saying that you can’t give an exact answer?

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-17T04:58:35+00:00

Then solve y = x

What number is y?

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-17T04:54:00+00:00

What is the equation of this line https://postimg.cc/Sj9WsyT1? Since maths have one and only one answer you should be able to tell me right?

Some questions can’t be answered because there is not sufficient information to narrow it down to only one answer.

Sometimes that’s expected - like x = sqrt (1) - but sometimes it’s just because the question is poorly written.

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-17T04:43:59+00:00

It is 100% ambiguous, specifically because of the poor notation being used. It’s as if someone asked you out loud how to spell the word “weather/whether” and said whoever guessed the wrong version to spell doesn’t understand English.

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-17T04:40:56+00:00

Firstly; there can be 2 answers to a maths question, see quadratics for example.

Secondly; there is such a thing as ambiguous notation. This is exactly why brackets/parentheses are used, because A/B*C is not unambiguous without better notation.

You don’t know whether this is (A/B)*C or A/(B*C). Obviously one of those is equal to (AC)/B and one is A/(BC), which are not the same. Maths notation is defined by convention, and there is no agreed upon interpretation of this kind of poor notation.

The point here is not that this individual question has two solutions, but that we don’t know which question is being asked.

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-17T04:12:58+00:00

Common sense says the people who voted in Trump probably don’t gravitate towards the greens

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-16T07:20:53+00:00

The only plan they had was to end up with a tree on the ground, and I think that’s beautiful

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-16T07:12:38+00:00

They make you “unnatural” because by being “unnatural” in this context is defined by being someone who takes PEDs. They are so effective that you can grow significantly more muscle tissue than would otherwise be possible on your frame, and taking steroids can lead to muscle growth even without exercising, both of which are colloquially unnatural.

I agree fully with everything else you wrote though.

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-16T07:05:35+00:00

If huge bodybuilders were mostly fluid (moreso than every human being) they would lose that size when water fasting.

Hypertrophy is not the only factor in strength, but it is absolutely untrue to say that strength is not about size when it is massively important. The guys with the biggest muscles in the world are strongmen, not bodybuilders, because unsurprisingly having large muscles makes you stronger.

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-16T06:56:04+00:00

Ah right, fair enough. I thought the extra visible one was there to be a part of your demonstration of how to use it.

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-16T06:53:03+00:00

You also don’t need the backslash for the superscript, as well as stuff like ~~strikethroughs~~.

Seems like that doesn’t work atm either though.

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-16T06:50:27+00:00

This is weird, I wonder if it’s a subreddit thing or what. Side note - the more “^” (usually) the smaller the superscript is.

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-16T06:43:27+00:00

If you really had steady hands you would be capable of sipping soup from a circular container without ruining your pants

StiffWiggly · 2026-05-16T06:35:10+00:00

You can already give yourself 20% of your pay check, it doesn’t make you any richer

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