>>12040799>>12040808Congrats, thread derailed on the very first post. Oh well, let's do this.
>>12042642Agreed. Language in general is a poor instrument for delivering thought. This is why communication is usually the first and the last problem in a given project / assignment / work. English is my third language, and the first thing I understood was that one of the coins was always heads. So it was a trick question, you're really only flipping one coin, making it 50/50.
But OP delivered, that's why pics like that derail threads everywhere they are. It's the same attribute most pictures, logic puzzles etc. share whether in media, or Facebook or where ever. People love to make it about misunderstanding the maths problem, when it's not about that. It's about trickery and purposefully confusing wording, designed to mislead.
Even the order of operations to a layman is a bunch of bullshit, for good reason. As a software engineer, I always use parentheses to separate the logical components of a formula so there is zero chance for misunderstandings when someone else later goes over my code (including myself). It's at odds with the fact that we read left to right, but then in some cases, are supposed to count right to left to center to right to further left and then finally left to right, depending on operators used. Maths majors get used to this, but the rest of us don't. It's an archaic process anyway, that doesn't serve its original purpose anymore since we're in the digital age, instead of having to worry about conserving ink and paper and type out our formulas as tightly as possible.
People will argue this. But that's what people - specifically the asshole subspecies of people - do. They are vain, petty little things. If they see an excuse to establish some meaningless pecking orders over trivial bs and claim superiority of someone else, they do it out of spite. Whether it's about obsolete maths, or a blue / gold dress. Assholes are like that.
