[tor-bugs] #26157 [Internal Services/Service - trac]: Text captcha does not obey order of operations

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#26157: Text captcha does not obey order of operations
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     Reporter:  cypherpunks                       |      Owner:  qbi
         Type:  defect                            |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Low                               |  Milestone:
    Component:  Internal Services/Service - trac  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                            |   Keywords:
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 The text captcha asks a simple math question, for example:
 > six plus two multiplied by four
 The correct answer is 6 + 2 × 4 = 6 + 8 = 15, due to order of operations,
 but the captcha system does not accept that and instead expects you to do
 (6 + 2) × 4 = 8 × 4 = 32. This is confusing to many users who do
 multiplication first, as they should. Please explicitly specify that order
 of operations is ignored, or do not ignore the order of operations. Or
 accept both answers to the ambiguous question (e.g. both 15 and 32).

 I tried to post this on https://trac.edgewall.org/newticket, but they have
 blocked submissions by Tor users. I am posting it here instead in case
 there is a possible workaround on Tor's side.

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