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  • it sounds like your wearing a brace headgear lol

  • memorize square numbers and get to everything from those

  • i never learned my multiplication tables either, glad to see I'm not alone.

  • Uugh, auto correct! I typed vihart and it replaced it with bogart, sorry

  • TeeEye84Plus, you are extremely sexist. Bogart is much smarter then you, and we all know it because she is amazing at this and you are stupid enough not to recognize it. Stop hiding behind your stupid stereotypes, because every one of them is flat wrong.

  • Like a Green Day lyric "I dont care if you dont care"

  • I've learned more in your videos than I did in 12 years of school. I really wish you were my math teacher.

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  • Seven Dolphin Six Equals Fourty Two XD

  • @JaysonManns Thanks for all the fish.

  • You a boy or girl?

    

  • @PattyObrien616 Somebody doesn't understand pemdas

  • U used FOIL! :D

  • OMG! thank you! thats so easy :D

  • Thanks that method of multiplication helped me alot its way faster than the old way i did it (:

  • Time consuming writing that line bullshit

  • ????????????? What ????????????????????????????

  • Um...uh...what

  • 36 on act?

  • THIS is Distracting *Troll Face*

  • 42!

  • Nerd Power!

  • or... you know... you could just use a calculator :/

  • My 3rd grade challenge math teacher always said 6x7 is (and would scream) 42!!! And he would do it randomly!

  • I like your content here, but you must surely be trying for the world record in speaking as fast as possible! :-)

  • I so wish I had had  one "real" teacher in my first 12 years of education or at lest the inter webs had been invented. Oh, well. SO, just a thanx to V, this old guy continues his education and your entertaining as well....

  • i wish i was as smart as u because we have a test soon and i am nervous

  • 7 * dolphin * 12 = 1337

  • @Krikler7Productions Making dolphin equal to approximately 15.916666666666666666666666666­667

    :P

  • @Tyrannigon64 yes, this is a logical number

  • I say we do away with the order of operations entirely, except for parentheses. The rest of the order just convolutes the sentence.

  • YOU SAID VOILA, NOT WA-LAH. I LOVE YOU.

  • @LanIost vOi-lah?

  • @LanIost where i cant hear it

  • you waste a lot of paper

  • But seriously though, who drinks juice with ice?

  • @Mjolkmaestro orange juice

  • I LOVE HER

  • Whether you believe it or not, she is 100% right about 48/2(9+3).

  • CheezBurger

  • Math is a man-made thing. We, humans, came up with number systems and basic operations as well as complex formulas. Why? To explain the world. To say that, if you have $2 and I give you $3, then you now have $5. To describe the motion of a projectile. If an alternate world with intelligent species existed, they might have come up with a different way of expressing the world altogether. But to make sure that WE all get the same answer when solving problems, we use THE ORDER OF OPERATIONS.

  • @PattyObrien616 actually MrSirBurpsAlot is right. For an explanation why check flowiepanda's post, it explains quite nicely what the solution of the problem is.

  • 48/2(9+3) = 48/ 2 x 12 = 24x12 = 288.

    @ Vihart if this is wrong in your opinion, please explain why, because i think there are plenty of people wondering why it is unsolvable. Thanks!

  • @Lurmy101 That is one way of solving it. (48)\(2(9+3)) is also a possibillity, then you get 48\24=2 It isn't made clear what 48 is divided by, The notation is confusing, which creates two ways of solving it.

  • 48 divided by 2 times (9+3)? are you kidding me? easiest problem. parenthesis first, so 48 divided by 2 times 12 is the new problem. doing 2 times 12 and that divided by 48, thats basically the problem backwards. so you do 48 divided by 2= 24. 24 times 12= 288. problem solved.

  • @MrSirBurpsAlot ur retarded. 48/2(9+3)=48/18+6=48/24=2

    THE ANSWER IS 2! what grade are you in?

  • @PattyObrien616 first of all 48 isn't divisible by 18 so the answer is wrong altogether, and you forgot order of operations.you don't do 48 divided by (18+6) you do (48 divided by 18)+6.

    order of operations:

    1. parenthesis.

    2. exponents

    3. multiplication and division

    4. + and -.

    you are wrong! and either way weather the order of operations up there is wrong, there should be no 6 or 18 in the problem. anywhere. so... who's retarded now?

  • @MrSirBurpsAlot actually your wrong. let's get technical. 48/2(9+3) lets use PEMDAS-Parenthesis first so 48/2(12). Then you have EMDAS-no exponents so MDAS- OH MULTIPLICATION! 48/24. DAS-so division next which gives you TWO. retard.

  • @PattyObrien616 Actually, multiplication and division are done on the same step, whichever comes from left to right, as does addition and subtraction. That's the confusing thing about PEMDAS, it puts multiplication before division and addition before subtraction. It should be something like PE(M/D)(A/S).

  • @PattyObrien616 Actually, multiplication has the same priority as division and so do addition and subtraction. in which case you would do what comes from left to right. in the case of 48/2(12), 48/2 should be solved first and the quotient multiplied by 12.

  • Genial.

  • Much easier approach would be with vedic maths.  21

    x32

    ------ 2 (Multiply last two digit of both the numbers) 7 (cross multiply and add them (2x2)+(3x1))

    6 (Finally multiply first two digit of both the numbers)

    ------

    672

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  • @ConspiracyChannel101 actually, doesn't matter. What is important is you do the bracket first.

  • was she kidding in the 7x6 part? she's able to explain all these things but not 7x6? :O either way, her intelligence is amazing

  • @littledetail Ofcourse. She probably multiplies 4-digit numbers by heart, when she sleeps.

  • @littledetail She may be stretching the truth, but something like that is still quite plausible. I am pretty good at manipulating variables and can solve advanced calculus problems with a minimal number of marks on the page, but I can't remember anything higher than 7*7 other than powers of 2 (though that's mostly due to rote memorization of binary numbers) and perfect squares.

  • @littledetail Not sure. But I'm an honors sophomore and I take Calculus and am able to comprehend concepts like limits, derivatives, and integrals, yet i still can't tell you, on the spot, what 6 x 8 is. it'll probably take me about 5 seconds to do 5 x 8, which i know is 40 and add 8 to it, which is 48. i never memorized the multiplication table in its entirety.

  • Genial.

  • Genial.

    

  • I do the easy way

  • u dont explain why this works... the main problem I have with math is you are just expected to accept that things are the way they are... why does drawing the number of lines and crossing them work?

  • @dontpntpool

    She did explain it, and show it while doodling. All you're doing is creating a grid and adding the results.

  • do one on mental arithmetic will you? a way to visualise in your head in every day life (supermarkets etc) that make it simple without a calculator *sigh* my maths teachers sucked so much in school..

    you are fantastic!!

  • The problem is not ambiguous precisely because we have the order of operations, which shows that operations are done left-to-right The problem could reasonably be considered ambiguous otherwise, but not as it is right now. :3

  • But what if you tried distributing 2 to the parentheses? D: OH DEAR GOD

  • My brain hurts REALLY bad.

  • @RCVideoDude LOL

  • dolphin and 42? hitchhikers guide? lol

  • So long, and thanks for all the fish!

  • I saw 100*86- 3*86 xD

  • I always wondered why you ended up with an ax term when expanding (x+a)(x+a), but the multiply everything thing you said cleared it up, thanks!

  • Shoots self*

  • I so totally love the point you're making about the 48/2*(9+3) it indeed doesn't matter at all!

    I am subscribing, and really loving your vids!

  • why on earth she has to speak so first?

  • 252

  • Seven dolphin three equils !!!!!!

  • 12 dolphin 4 equals strawberries? Vlogbrothers!

  • In Chrome:

    1) Ctrl+Shift+J

    2) Type in: 42/2*(9+3)

    3) Get: 288

    Yup.

  • Ahahahaa I love you! Ahaha this kool. :D

  • 48/2(9+3)

    48/2*12

    48/24= 2

    Write it on a piece of paper! It's not hard!

  • @Figolett You calculated that wrong. Multiplication doesn't come before division, you're supposed to solve from left to right. Just think about it... dividing is like multiplying by the inverse.

    48/2(9+3)

    48/2(12)

    24(12)

    288

  • @flowiepanda It depends on how you write it down, but since we can't write it ilike we would in real life nobody will really get it right D:

  • @keits96 no... ÷ and / are the same thing...

    I don't know who taught you math, but in the real world, we follow the order of operations..

    Grouping symbols, Exponents, Multiplication or Division (left to right, whichever comes first), and lastly, Addition or Subtraction (left to right).

    48/2(9+3) Parentheses first

    48/2(12) Division first because we solve from left to right

    24(12) Lastly, Multiplication

    288 is your final answer

  • @flowiepanda This man is %100 correct. when PEMDAS doesnt work like in this problem go left to right like your are reading a book(in america)

  • @zeldamstr666 thank you. im glad there are some rational people left in this world.

  • @flowiepanda

    You missed the point(s):

    - Good notation doesn't require conventions to avoid ambiguity

    - Arguing about ambiguous notation and memorizing conventions is not mathematics.

  • @flowiepanda You said yourself, parentheses first. Even though parentheses are "considered" multiplication anything that affects a parenthesis takes priority. If it was the multiplication sign x, it would be how you would do it. GETTING RID OF ALL PARENTHESES IS THE FIRST PRIORITY. So you would have to multiply by the 12 to get 48/24= 2. Or you could expand the parentheses first so get 48/(18+6).

  • @tombraidermasterman Anything inside the parentheses is first priority. 48/2(12) After that, you move on from P to M/D (since there are no exponents). 48/2(12) is the same as 48/2*12. Since division is seen first when going from left to right, we carry out with that operation: 24*12 = 288. If we apply YOUR logic to a problem like this: 3(4)^2 Then that would mean we would have to solve 3*4 and then square the entire value, (which we know is absolutely incorrect). I hope I've cleared things up.

  • @flowiepanda I said that getting rid of the parentheses was the first priority. If you get rid of them, the equation becomes more clearer. Getting rid of the parentheses DOES NOT necessarily mean multiplication. In the case of 3(4)^2 , you would get rid of the parentheses by solving 4^2 first, since in PEMDAS, exponents take priority over multiplication. Then it becomes 3x16=48. I hope you understand where I'm coming from.

  • @tombraidermasterman *cough* GEMDAS *cough* Grouping symbols, not just parentheses, *COUGH* sorry I had a bad cold.

  • @tombraidermasterman I'm still disturbed that you think 3(4) and 3 x 4 connote different things.

  • @flowiepanda This is an illustration of the difference between how most people see math, and how true geniuses see math. Normal people see math as a rigid set of rules that must be followed to generate the proper outcome. Geniuses see math a a beautiful living process that can be modified or executed in a number of interconnected ways to generate that same proper outcome. You see a math problem on a page, she sees symbols on a page that poorly describe a beautiful living process.

  • @wormspeaker Are you implying that I'm not intelligent because I use examples and facts to justify my answers? Just because I use hard logic doesn't mean I don't enjoy math as much as anyone here.

  • @flowiepanda No. I did not imply that you were not intelligent. I implied that you were normal. If you like, I can reevaluate my position.

  • @wormspeaker If you knew me personally, "normal" would not be a word you'd be eager to use to describe me. I'm not a genius, but I'd like to think I'm at least a little above average.

  • @flowiepanda I'll take your word for it. Though when it comes to things like math, there is a world of difference between "above average" or even "exceptional" and true genius. That is not to say that I am a genius when it comes to math, but I catch glimpses of it here and there. Math is what the universe is made of. It is what ties all of the sciences together. (Or at least anything that can be described with math is a true science.) Our ability to describe and understand it is what is lacking.

  • 48/2(9+3) =

    48/2*12=

    24*12=288

    This is how I would calculate it...

  • BIDMAS.

    Brackets, Inverces, Divide, Multipy, Addition, Subtraction. A way to solve badly written maths problems

  • OMG.. my mind blanked too at 7x6..wtf

    ._. better start doing more brain simulating stuff..

  • This is awesome :)

    I don't understand why, but I personally love math. My sister however struggles with the basics and I'm hoping this may help her out :)

    Thanks a ton

  • Isn't it obvious? Its 288. I agree, it's notated horrifically

  • @AlexLloydPowell I disagree. (Not with the answer, that's correct). There should be no ambiguity when following the order of operations. And if there is, you can always rewrite it.

    [48(9+3)]/2

  • thank you people would not shut the fuck up about the 48/2 shit when i told them its not in the correct form

  • 48/2(9+3) =

    48/18+6 =

    8 2/3 or 8,6666666 ̅6

  • @MrFueler WRONG. PEMDAS Do what is in the parenthesis first, then complete the simple function from left to right hence 48/2 = 24 then do the other operation 24*12 which gives a net result of 288. This is how the Math Society does this problem. You do not distribute first, but do the P in Pemdas first. Then complete the function just like how we read

  • 2:16 ?? I think that this is a very clever inside joke on your part, for only the most creative and perceptive to solve. The coefficient of 2 perplexes at first, then one wonders whether it might perhaps be a hidden message, leading one (in the absence of other guidance aside from the previous digits on the page, whose significance which I won't get into at this time) to seek answers in the Bible; since the topic is Math, of course we check the book of Matthew, with the chapter and ... (cont.)

  • (cont.) ... verse matching the time 2:16, and there we find this -- "When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi." -- which completes the circular reference by suggesting the elimination of the coefficient 2, and so the entire digression proves self-annihilating -- and exhilarating. Tanky fo de fun!! ;D!!

  • haha you hit on 2 of my pet peeves, the sloppy notation "trick", and the numbingly stupid method for multiplying binomials.

    Every time my teacher made us repeat the steps to the "FOIL" method I wanted so badly to stand up and kick him in the balls. JUST FUCKING DISTRIBUTE IT MR HUDAK! YOU FUCKING SON OF A BITCH! AAAAHHHH!

    What happens when there's a third or a fourth set of parenthesis thrown into the mix? where is your god now????

  • i fickin HATE 6x7. i always forget that one. same as 7x8

  • @hazelnut4991 7x8 is easy. 7x6 is hard xp

  • i learned multiplication/ division which ever comes first going left to right. that's means you would divide first then multiply after the parentheses using the P.E.M/D.A/S problem

  • @XxEmoKizzxX You learned well.

  • Easy enough to answer. Use PE(MD)(AS).

    48/2(9+3)

    48/2(12)

    24(12)

    288

  • It goes Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication and Division (left to right), Addition and Subtraction (left to right). For 48/2(9+3), Parenthesis first= 48/2(12). No exponents now mult. and div. From left to right we do 48/2= 24 and then 24 times 12 = 288

  • @pppfan103 No parantheses, exponents nothing. A simple math trick! Check it out! "Speed maths- Multiplying without multiplying". Click on my username and check the vid. Cheers.

  • 7 dolphin 12 = 5 camels

  • @poleonil ... :( I thought it was 13 humming birds...

  • @poleonil you got the 12 and 7 wrong way around, that would mean it would equal -5 camels

  • Mathematicians are nuts.

  • why not just use BODMAS

  • why would anyone want to multiply that way -______-

  • God, it's like the world forgot their PEDMAS.

  • your this generations Albert Einstein

  • Nicely done - like the speedy pen work. Great visuals!

  • i've just been mindfucked...

  • wait wait... i think i get it, A LITTLE. but uh.... doesnt this just take more fucking time?

  • WAHT THE FUCK its like whatever she sais, just flyes right through my head.. time to replay the fucking video -.-

  • 7 dolphin 12 = WHAT?!?!?! I NEED TO KNOW

  • at 2:15, when she's doing the binomial foil, shouldn't the answer be "x^2 +10x + 16" and not "2x^2 + 10x + 16?"

  • @aaron94na Looks like it to me. xD Sure has been a long time since I've done anything with factors or anything-nomial though. x.x

  • That is Vedic Math from ancient India discovered by some Britishers who brought it down to the west.

  • I'm in Honors Geometry, and I am completely baffled. Does this mean that I'm stupid, or that I've just been taught wrong my whole life?

  • @FlargTheKitty neither, the point is that you've been taught one correct way that may or may not be simpler than another correct way but regardless, they are still both correct

  • why not use a calculator?

  • @ShIrasWabOOse02 Some calculators get the incorrect answer.

  • @ShIrasWabOOse02 This is more fun!

  • @ShIrasWabOOse02 too mainstream.

  • @ShIrasWabOOse02

    my calculator dolphin have a dolphin button

  • @ShIrasWabOOse02 Calculators haven't been around for too long. Back in the day, people carried around dozens of charts just to do simple logarithms.

  • @flowiepanda Not if you memorized them.

  • Hehe, I'll throw something out... you're assuming that the equation can only have one solution. Which is obviously wrong, as it can be solved two ways.

  • Heh I wish all girls were as smart as u are.

  • I'm confused. Why did you put 7 instead of 6? I mean there's 3,1,2 and 6 intersection right? I just don't get it. You put 7 instead of 6.

  • I dont see why 48/2(9+3) is badly phrased... Work inside parentheses first, 48/9(12), get rid of the annoying parentheses, 48/9*12, relationship of mult and division, 48 * (1/9) * 12, solve. -didnt look at comments- someone should totally explain to me my misunderstanding <3

  • @TehMathWiztard

    You're right about solving inside the parenthesis first. The problem lies with whether the problem is interpreted as (48 * 12)/9 or 48/(9*12). There isn't any rule governing whether dividing first or multiplying first gets priority. Alternatively, 48*12+3 will always be solved as (48*12)+3, because mult/div gets priority over add/sub. This is just a math problem in improper form and has a technically non-real solution.

  • @jaffey2006 the problem is, that some people are to stooopit to write down what they really want

  • como le haces>??

  • Turning math problems into English sentences is how I got through math class with an A. :D

  • a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy reference. yay!

  • Y dont u just use the regular method dumbass? lets say u had exactly a minute to figure ur problem out... y waste 3 minutes when u could just figure it out faster than that.. this is a waste of time, ur method sucks, srry :(

  • @cvice30 The point of the video wasn't give a better method of doing multiplication; it was to give a visual representation of what is happening when you're doing "regular" multiplication. There's more to math than coming up with effective ways of doing things...

  • This video exactly highlights the problem of line multiplying. Its fine for multiplying 1, 2 and 3 together but not so good for 7, 8 and 9.

  • hey vi! (or anyone else that would care to answer) im in tenth grade and am starting honors pre calc (even though my genius school system decided to force me to take alg 2 before geometry) and am having some trouble remembering what to do when rationalizing the denominators of fractions when they contain i (ie 6/i or 6/6-i)....could you remind me since google cant?

  • @mkyb843 Multiply the denominator by the complex conjuate.

  • @MLSTRMRVLTN Thank you!!

  • I can't believe I never realized what I was doing when multiplying large numbers together until watching this video! Awesome!

  • Vihart, I wonder if you will win the fields medal at some point? I damn right hope you do!

  • Find some pointlessly long operation, find a doodling solution to it, and make it the Dolphin operator!!!!!!!!! 5 dolphin 12 = ??????? :D

  • Hi Vihart!

    That was awesome! :O)

    I really like how you explained all that and your attitude about the practicality of math, rather than the bowing down to bone-dry convention.

    Keep rockin' it! :D

    Sunshine & Blessings to you!

  • As I see it 48/2(9+3) is not a difficult problem. Order of Operations dictates that you do the parenthesis, the multiplication and division next. Because the the division (48/2) comes before the multiplication [2(9+3)], the solution would have to be (48/2)*(9+3). My reasoning is that because multiplication and division are equals within OoO, the one that come first in the equation is the one that is solved first. The answer would come out to be 288.

  • ....thats what calculators are for (;

  • I'd rather stick to 2-digit multiplication...

  • just use P.E.D.M.A.S.or B.O.D.M.A.S. for 48÷2(9+3)

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  • Did anyone else learn the "lattice method" of multiplication? They taught us two methods of multiplication in elementary school, and to this day, I can't do the regular thing, I always have to use the lattice method. It involves drawing boxes and diagonal lines and stuff... My mom is convinced that it is a much more inefficient way to multiply, but it seems to work for me.

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