a classic thread

uh oh

please real vote, and if you don't want to vote for I DON'T KNOW btw.

this is middle school shit

last time this topic came around it was a 50/50 split and one of the people fervently arguing the wrong side is at Harvard now on a scholarship. there's something MORE to this than math and I hope this poll helps figure out what it is.

last time this topic came around it was a 50/50 split and one of the people fervently arguing the wrong side is at Harvard now on a scholarship. there's something MORE to this than math and I hope this poll helps figure out what it is.

what??? who??

paul c.

yeah some people just imagine parentheses in their head

Yeah, it's clearly -16. It would be 16 if the question was (-4)^2.

nope I can't get -16 any way I do it. have not done maths for 2 years though so!

nope I can't get -16 any way I do it. fuck you maths teachers.

type it into google.

hahahahaha

I have never thought of it that way but that makes a lot more sense.

no option to remove vote?? lol

oh well

yeah that does not give any explanation nice try.

It really does.

yeah that does not give any explanation nice try.

it shows you order of operations pretty explicitly. the negative is outside, meaning its multiplication, meaning you do the exponent first.

nice try i know your edit tricks by now...

too quick bros

Yeah, it's clearly -16. It would be 16 if the question was (-4)^2.

....ffffffffffffff

Oh well, I screwed up.