What is 6-6*6? Simple math question.

What is 6-6*6?

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  • -30

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  • 30

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • lolwut is math

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divide the people in this thread into 4 sections.

Section 1: Does it one way, prolly the most logical way, the way they were taught... even to the point that you put the math equation into a calculator the way T/S stated it... the answer comes out to 0. This prolly equals 89% of the world.

Section 2: Does it the other way. Was prolly taught that way in the last 6 years. Or either came across something on stumbleupon, saw it on TV or some shit... saw how easy it was to tell people they're wrong simply by insulting their intelligence, and decided to come here to try it. It worked. Despite learning how to do math for your whole lives, someone came along with some fancy words, told you that you were wrong and you believed it. This prolly equals 10% of the world.

Section 3: Too dumb to do math. How the hell are they on the internet? Dragon Naturally Speaking? 0.5 of the world population.

other .5 don't even care.


Notice how they say 90% of the wealth in the world is controlled by 10% of the population?

Notice how if you have a job, you SWEAR you're smarter than your bosses?

The T/S is gonna be a lot of people's boss some day. Not because he's smarter than you, but you're more razzle dazzled and won over by someone who SOUNDS smarter. Are you wrong? is the stuff you've been taught your whole life wrong? is windows calculator wrong? Is Pluto a planet?

Don't feel bad, though. 4 days ago, I showed another message board the mathematical proof that 1=2 and now they worship me as a god.
 
and before some jackass comes in here after looking it up on the internet and says "hee hee haw haw you caint devide by ZEE-ROH!!!" yeah, I know. Multiplying by zero gets you zero too.... so what's your point?
 
divide the people in this thread into 4 sections.

Section 1: Does it one way, prolly the most logical way, the way they were taught... even to the point that you put the math equation into a calculator the way T/S stated it... the answer comes out to 0. This prolly equals 89% of the world.

Section 2: Does it the other way. Was prolly taught that way in the last 6 years. Or either came across something on stumbleupon, saw it on TV or some shit... saw how easy it was to tell people they're wrong simply by insulting their intelligence, and decided to come here to try it. It worked. Despite learning how to do math for your whole lives, someone came along with some fancy words, told you that you were wrong and you believed it. This prolly equals 10% of the world.

Section 3: Too dumb to do math. How the hell are they on the internet? Dragon Naturally Speaking? 0.5 of the world population.

other .5 don't even care.


Notice how they say 90% of the wealth in the world is controlled by 10% of the population?

Notice how if you have a job, you SWEAR you're smarter than your bosses?

The T/S is gonna be a lot of people's boss some day. Not because he's smarter than you, but you're more razzle dazzled and won over by someone who SOUNDS smarter. Are you wrong? is the stuff you've been taught your whole life wrong? is windows calculator wrong? Is Pluto a planet?

Don't feel bad, though. 4 days ago, I showed another message board the mathematical proof that 1=2 and now they worship me as a god.

Good For you!
 
How got answer different than -30 go to

hxx p://lmgtfy.com/?q=6-6*6
 
Wow, over 40% people calculated wrong :icon16:

I hope there aren't many programmers among them...
 
gives me an idea for an ad..

What is 6-6*6?
40% of people get this wrong!

..sadly that's not exaggerated :(

I guess those 40% are Americans. The school level there is soooo low...They can't do math with their brains...
 
and before some jackass comes in here after looking it up on the internet and says "hee hee haw haw you caint devide by ZEE-ROH!!!" yeah, I know. Multiplying by zero gets you zero too.... so what's your point?
Sure you can divide by zero. Get 5 apples, divide them amongst 0 people and see with how many apples you are left with. Also see if the universe ends ("cannot" is such a scary word for mathematicians).

The reason we are forced to say that such a division is impossible is because otherwise the equation 1*0 = 0 would become absurd. If 1*0 = 0 then 0/0 will have to be = 1. So we take the easy way out and instead of pursuing the unknown correct answer we simply say 'you can't divide by zero' even though it's just not true.

In the OPs question, the answer is indeed 0 if operator precedency is not taken into account and - 30 if it is. Simply assuming you must use operator precedency is plain stupid as it was never mentioned as a condition. And in a real world situation if you get 6 apples then another 6 multiplied by 6 and take out 6 you end up with indeed 30 apples, not -30 and not 0.

So it is all about context and the more exact conditions you set, the more useful the answer becomes. This comes from a coder :cool:
 
Depends on how you format it like blackma said...

6-(6*6)

6(-6*6)

(6-6)*6

...all give different answers
 
To all who say answer is -30, thats totally wrong,

it would be correct if it was written differently, but answer is 0 as is written in plain format.
Go use a scentific calculator that uses BODMAS if its required by formatting and see it work
 
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