This is not a test of intelligence but of a weakness in mathematical grammar tha

This is not a test of intelligence but of a weakness in mathematical grammar that makes the reader fall back to the order of operations when the sentence is malformed. The correct form is (1×10)+5. or 5+(1×10), gracefully failing to 5 + 1 * 10 if malformed.


Source date (UTC): 2019-02-20 01:49:24 UTC

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1098036868359380993

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i bet most of you fail this test… https://t.co/Morf7vrV8H

Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1097647401358241799

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