What is the answer to this?

[classical_hero]

 

[Borachio]

Impossible to answer without any indication of the priority of the operators. Sorry.

 

[W|M]

It's 5

Order of operations is Brackets,Indicies, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction

 

[LegionSteve]

computer says 1.

Spoiler :

 

[Leoreth]

The answer is 7, and that division symbol is an abomination.

 

[Quackers]

Gah, i always see these floating around the interwebz. I predict the thread will come down to two camps arguing over the right answer untill Truronian steps in with the right answer
My answer is 7.

 

[Grisu]

The answer is 7, and that division symbol is an abomination.

it's the one we used way back in high school....haven't really seen it since then

and yes, the answer is 7

 

[Chukchi Husky]

2/2=1
1x0=0
6-0=6
6+1=7

I probably did it wrong.

Order of operations is Brackets,Indicies, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction

I was taught it as bodmas, with the o standing for "power of".

 

[Camikaze]

Aren't these sorts of questions usually meant to have some of conflict in the order of operations? This one quite clearly doesn't.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

"IT"

several chars

 

[Borachio]

Yes, the most usual conventional precedence is bodmas. But unless you specify this is what you mean, who's to know?

And this why it is usual to use brackets to remove ambiguity.

(6-1)x0 + (2/2) =/= 6-(1x0) + (2/2) =/= ((6-1)x0 -2)/2 etc.

 

[Yeekim]

7, obviously...

 

[W|M]

2/2=1
1x0=0
6-0=6
6+1=7

I probably did it wrong.

It's:

2/2 = 1
1x0 = 0
6-+1 = 5

 

[Grisu]

you forgot the zero from the 1x0 operation

so it's 6-0+1 = 7

 

[Mise]

7 obviously

 

[del62]

With mixed multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction expressions do the multiplication and divsion first, left to right, then addition and subtraction, left to right.

6-1x0+2/2 = ?

So we do the multiplication and division

6-1x0+2/2 = 6 - 0 + 2/2 = 6 - 0 + 1 = 6 + 1 = 7

 

[Akka]

Impossible to answer without any indication of the priority of the operators. Sorry.

Are you telling us they didn't teach you this in grade school ?

 

[classical_hero]

The answer is 7, and that division symbol is an abomination.

That was the normal division symbol when I was at school.

 

[del62]

This line in C# gives x as 7 which is ofcourse correct.

int x = 6-1*0+2/2;

 

[del62]

computer says 1.

Spoiler :

The problem is not the computer but the compiler.