A grade-school math problem has stumped people. Can you solve the equation?

The math you thought you would never use again from school is back to haunt you. X users are in an uproar over an equation that @BholanathDutta posted. It appears as a simple equation, but the comment ...

There are probably a lot of things you learned in school that you don’t even remember, but the “order of operations”—also known as PEMDAS—is likely to be one that stuck with you; you’ll mess up even ...

The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school. By Steven Strogatz Recently I wrote about a math equation that had ...