6÷2(1+2)=?

Chemistry Ftw

Yahew wrote: »

So your first argument was that your calculator was correct, and now that you are shown a calculator with a different answer we are back to 5th class maths.

I think we've all moved on from 5th class maths in this forum.

Nope, my calculator gave me 1 as the answer so it seems that different calculators give different answers or people just arn't including the brackets.

nothing

The reason for getting different answers on different calculators/programs is that they have different ways of dealing with the "implied multiplication" which some programs are made to take as a precedent over other multiplication, which is where the ambiguity comes in (i.e. the multiplication between the 2 and the bracketed part being higher than regular multiplication). Of course, this equation is not in standardized non-ambiguous notation.

kona

Its 1, when I saw it first I thought 9 too, but when I put some effort into it I got one.

Also Sharp El-531RH says 1 too.

aas

kona wrote: »

Its 1, when I saw it first I thought 9 too, but when I put some effort into it I got one.

Also Sharp El-531RH says 1 too.

Thanks for clearing that up for everyone.

Joe10000

It's 1, brackets always first.

LeixlipRed

I go for a game of football and I come back to this rubbish *waves bye to thread*