There is a meme on Facebook with the following math problem:

1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1x0+1=?

A couple of my friends said 12. I said 12. Then another friend came along and said 1. We argued about it and then she changed her answer to 0. She tried every way she could to tell me that anything times zero equals zero. I tried every way I could to tell her that order of operations says you do the 1x0 first, then add all the other 1s. She says order of operations doesn't apply.

Some of the comments where the meme was originally posted are really nasty. One of the milder ones says "if you think the answer is anything other than 12, don't help your kids with their math homework."

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Well, my answer was 1, but I'm rusty on all the rules.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I was taught to use the acronym BODMAS when multiple signs are in use.

B=brackets
O=of
D=division
M=multiplication
A=addition
S=subraction

so I make the answer = 12

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A person who makes no mistakes, creates nothing.

I get 12.

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TimeLord04
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I was taught to use the acronym BODMAS when multiple signs are in use.

B=brackets
O=of
D=division
M=multiplication
A=addition
S=subraction

so I make the answer = 12

There's no brackets here, though, so I'm standing by my 1.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

11

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umpteen?

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11

11?

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

There's no brackets here, though, so I'm standing by my 1.

BODMAS lists the order of priority in which you carry out the calculation, in this case you do the multiplication before the additions.

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A person who makes no mistakes, creates nothing.

There's no brackets here, though, so I'm standing by my 1.

BODMAS lists the order of priority in which you carry out the calculation, in this case you do the multiplication before the additions.

^ This.


The answer is 12. If there are no brackets, then always multiplications and divisions before addition and subtraction.

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Reality Internet Personality

There's no brackets here, though, so I'm standing by my 1.

BODMAS lists the order of priority in which you carry out the calculation, in this case you do the multiplication before the additions.

^ This.


The answer is 12. If there are no brackets, then always multiplications and divisions before addition and subtraction.

That rings a bell now. It's been many years.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I make it 160

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A person who makes no mistakes, creates nothing.

This dear lady fascinates me.
Please excuse my interjection into the math problem.
I wish some of you might be also so entertained.

Margot Gerritsen.
She is not only very charming, she is a most intelligent mathematician.
And I just love her viscosity........LOL.

It is really a charming little math bit.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

C'mon Mark, it's the weekend, you just wanted an excuse to post something about whom you see as an attractive woman :-))

Ok, any advances on 160?

C'mon, Chris.
It was a damned fine lecture on mathematics.
Don't sell me short here, buddy.
Go on with your game, sorry to have interjected a little intelligence into it.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Ok 160 is bid, anyone else?

160 is correct.

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Reality Internet Personality

This dear lady fascinates me.
Please excuse my interjection into the math problem.
I wish some of you might be also so entertained.

Margot Gerritsen.
She is not only very charming, she is a most intelligent mathematician.
And I just love her viscosity........LOL.

It is really a charming little math bit.

Nice, and I appreciate your terrible pun. :D

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Reality Internet Personality

Doth one remember the revere, when at school, where you were given an
equation with the object of having to correctly assign, to it, the brackets?
i.e. the math question was, "Assign the brackets".

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I come up with 160, too, and I did watch the math video. I love people with a passion. I was lucky to have a few very good math teachers in high school who truly wanted everyone to "get it", and tailored their instructions to fit everybody's needs. Most of us ended up with A's in the classes because of those teachers. I wasn't gifted in math, but I was taught methods that made sense to me at the time. Math itself may be black and white, but the method of instruction is many shades of gray, and some caring teachers take the time and know how to find where each student is on the spectrum.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Doth one remember the revere, when at school, where you were given an
equation with the object of having to correctly assign, to it, the brackets?
i.e. the math question was, "Assign the brackets".

Was that being given the answer without the equation set up properly, and having to work it in reverse?

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

This dear lady fascinates me.
Please excuse my interjection into the math problem.
I wish some of you might be also so entertained.

Margot Gerritsen.
She is not only very charming, she is a most intelligent mathematician.
And I just love her viscosity........LOL.

It is really a charming little math bit.

Nice, and I appreciate your terrible pun. :D

The bit about her viscosity?
That was most certainly intentional.
Again, she is most charming and wonderful to listen to.

I bookmarked this a couple of years ago.

And here is Margot's profile page........

And......you DID watch her lecture to know I was not blowing smoke?

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster