When Reddit Argues Over Math

Nothing ignites internet warfare quite like an ambiguous math expression! The equation "1+1×0" has spawned a bell curve of intelligence where both the lowest and highest IQ individuals confidently declare "It's 0!" while the average folks insist "It's 1!"

This is the perfect illustration of the horseshoe theory of mathematical understanding—where people who never learned order of operations and people who overthink simple problems somehow reach the same wrong conclusion. Meanwhile, the 34% in the middle who remember PEMDAS from 5th grade are smugly correct but insufferably pedantic about it.

And thus mathematics, which should be the most objective discipline, continues to cause more online bloodshed than politics and religion combined.