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My AI collaborator and I just broke the internet with this simple middle school math equation: 8 ÷ 2(2+2) = ?

Depending on how you were taught BODMAS or PEMDAS, you’re either going to get 16 or 1. Even modern phone calculators and old school scientific calculators fight over the correct order of operations here!

Watch the step-by-step math proof and tell me down below:
👇 ARE YOU TEAM 16 OR TEAM 1? Drop your reasoning!

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00:00This innocent-looking math problem literally broke the internet.
00:04And it is dividing the entire world into two massive camps.
00:08Step 1 is easy.
00:10Everyone agrees we solve the brackets first, 2 plus 2 is 4.
00:15But watch what happens next.
00:18Camp 16 says.
00:19Look at what is left.
00:21Going strictly left to right.
00:248 divided by 2 is 4.
00:26And 4 times 4 gives you 16.
00:30But camp 1 says.
00:32No way.
00:33That 2 is glued to the brackets.
00:36So you must multiply first 8 divided by 8 gives you 1.
00:40Even different calculators cannot agree on this.
00:44So.
00:45Which rule did your teacher teach you?
00:48Are you team 16?
00:50Or team 1?
00:51Comment below.
00:52Or team 2?
00:52If you were to, if you were to, if you were to, if you were to, if you were to,
00:52if you were to, if you were to, if you were to, if you were to, if you were to,
00:52if you were to, if you were to, if you were to, if you were to, if you were to,
00:52if you were to, if you were to, if you were to, if you were to, if you were to,
00:52if you were to pick your teacher.

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