alpha lobster wrote:
seriously tho wrote:
It is technically ambiguous by some rule or some other rule. If you put multiplication before division, its 1. Intentionally written to obfuscate and be ambiguous so it doesnt make someone dumb or wrong to think it's something else.
Very well said.
Actually seriously’s comment isn’t quite on mark. You can not right-associate multiplication before the division according to BODMAS, which does put D and M on the same footing provided you go left to right. What the D/M equivalence means here is that you can either divide first like 6/2 or you can multiply first like 6*3, but BODMAS can not be interpreted to mean that you can multiply first as 2*3. Try typing the expression into a calculator or a computer program and every single one of them will evaluate it left to right.
The expression is unambiguous and is a rather basic test of primary school arithmetic.