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The answer in the comic is correct. It's just written in a way to make you as the reader think he's got it wrong for a second.
The ! operator in mathematics indicates a function called a factorial. Four factorial, or 4! = 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 24. Which is the correct answer if you follow the proper order of operations.
#DAMN YOU MATHEMATICIANS! YOU GOT ME AGAIN!!!
Imma be weird and argue that the answer actually should be 4.
Dear Aunt Sally is great or whatever, but syntax also fuckin matters. We can all probably agree that the faster, more intuitive answer is obviously 4. Most of those in the western world (meme's largest audience) read left-to-right and there is nothing the delineate that division must actually come before inverse addition until one has carefully examined the entire the problem (which you should definitely be doing, dumb-dumb) and slapped on another layer of thinking (inefficient waste of time when doing quick mafs). Use the damn parenthesis, ffs!
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My favourite kind of nerd.
Nerds!
(Im just mad cuz i can't do math. Carry on... Nerds)
Very funny joke, but I don't agree with the division sign. Its supposed to be either a / or \ depending on which way you want to divide.
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