Math Problem Causes Controversy As People Disagree How To Solve It

“This is convention. We have conventions on how to write these things, just like we have conventions on how to spell stuff. But still, there are different conventions. Some people spell it as ‘gray’ and others as ‘grey.’ We still understand what’s going on,” he clarified.

But for him, the question should have been correctly written like this 8/(2*(2+2)), which would yield the quotient of 1.