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Was this multiple choice? Because if 10 isn’t an option, people are just going to answer whatever.
This is why I write it as 2+(2x4). The parentheses aren’t techniclly necessary, but they do make it clearer to people who haven’t been in a school for 35 years.
just get rid of the x. 2+(24) = 26
This isn’t even math, just convention on rules for order of operations.
The one response you got was just like, “But there’s just ONE rule.” totally missing your point.
The annoying prevalence of this meme suggests to me that an alarming number of people lack even a middle-school understanding of basic arithmetic.
SADMEP
I know this is a PEMDAS joke, one of many for the PEMDAS throne.
But yeah, we need to really, really worry about the coming day when “math becomes a democracy” and that is already happening for a wide array of other facts and knowledge about the world.
Whatever “civility politics” liberals infested our collective minds with have to be abandoned. We have to get a lot harder and a lot less tolerant of other people’s “beliefs” even if you think “Well they’re only harming themselves by thinking 1x1=4” but they’re not, we need to start viewing these people as threats to our future. We no longer live in isolation, whatever bullshit your parents drove into you about “nothing on the internet being real and shouldn’t matter” was utter hogwash and even less relevant in 2025/2026. We get everything from the internet, including a sense of community and connection, which is why nutsoids find each other and turn something like a joke about earth being flat into an entire anti-science movement.
If you’ve ever seen those dumb sci-fi shows or movies where science if forbidden and people caught learning science are punished, and thought “that’s so unrealistic” well I have some real bad news for you.
But if enough people are doing it wrong, that means it’s common usage, and therefore it’s right!
-The English Language
Which is perfectly fine for languages:)
Solve for x
Null.
People who are responsible for the Wayland protocol: “This seems like a good idea, but also give veto rights to weirdos.”
Polls are fun, but order of operations never takes a vote. That’s what makes math comforting.
Wait, which numeral system are we using
wrong sub should be a shitpost
Technically it can be, since PEMDAS is not an immutable law, it’s convention so we can communicate maths and come to the same answer.
BEDMAS is just as immutable as the idea that those symbols represent numbers and operations. All math is based on conventions; you can’t just decide that some are more important than others.
PEMDAS isn’t even real. It’s something we made up to make stupid people feel better about being poor communicators. I challenge someone to create a word problem that actually requires the use of pemdas where you couldn’t just reword the problem to actually make sense.
Creating fake problems by inserting ambiguity is ridiculous.
