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stop whatever you're doing because there is a viral math problem and apparently math twitter is being torn apart at least in canada it is so i'm here as a math professor as someone with a phd in mathematics to try and solve the beautiful puzzle of six divided by two parentheses one plus two why am i here i've seen this exact problem actually go viral multiple times this guy has 15 million views on his video about it why and so i'm gonna finally explain what is all the controversy about and maybe more importantly like what does it say about our societal views of mathematics so here's the issue we have some arithmetic that we need to do and most of us have memorized some sort of order of operations like bed mass or perhaps you've seen pemdas as well which is the same basic idea but it puts parentheses first and it swaps the order of multiplication and division which never mattered anyways because multiplication and division are thought of as in the same basic category and you do those re