Hilarious math errors posted on Social Media

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@Cheesesteak

Of course, but in the real world, I understand the context of that equation I wrote. I’m not going to add the cost of a frozen pizza to the number of cucumbers I bought before multiplying by the number of pizzas I bought and then multiplying that by the cost of a cucumber.

Right; and that helps to explain why the order of operations rule works the way it does. See (if you care) the posts by @Senegoid in this thread:

Okay, but WHY does multiplication/division come before addition/subtraction?

I mean, I know it does. I know it’s Brackets/parentheses (depends where you live) Exponents/orders (depends) Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction I can see the point of having brackets, since then you can change the order, and exponents net, but why did they put div/multiply before addition and subtraction? Is there an advantage to that? Or was it just randomly chosen that way?

@Cheesesteak

Geez, I shouldn’t post when I’m bored, I’m getting way too invested

Isn’t that what the SDMB is all about?