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A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months
(www.engadget.com)
What's the scam?
this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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OK, it's been a few hours. I'll do the clumsy thing that everyone else has avoided and point out that it's deliberately set up so that people who have never heard of operator precedence - those who do things purely left-to-right - don't get a weird fraction when the division step is done, making them think that the answer they've reached must be the right one. You'd still get a handful who'd argue regardless, but that whole number ropes in a whole bunch more.
Couple that with the fact that the value reached this way doesn't match the value obtained from using operator precedence and you get arguments about what the right answer is. And a comment like the one you're reading right now that's too long for the hard-of-thinking to read.
"More engagement, baybee [sunglasses smiley emoji] [cash bag emoji]" etc.
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Yes, we can count. I suppose the question was "So what? What is scummy in some viral post?"
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This thread shows that a whole bunch of people need to start taking online education courses. Getting back your algebra skills, some science perhaps, communication, history, etc.
I don't know where you can get a proper education for that after grade school, but I see Brilliant.org advertised a lot.