Originally Posted by Tyrone
Originally Posted by bludog
Eight in the numerator over 2 times 4 in the denominator is how I took it. It is ambiguous.

I consider it a poorly written problem. If I saw it in code, I would question whether or not the original programmer knew what the result should be.

Hm? What's wrong with a / b * (c + d) ? Of course in the real world if it was just constants you or the preprocessor would evaluate it. As 16.

The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.