What is the answer to this and why? I think I know but want

>>9100040
it's 5, going vertically down the columns you add the top and middle to get the bottom one.

col 1: 3+2=5
col 2: -4+1=-3
col 3: -1+3=2

>>9100052
>writing out columns from left to right instead of rows
Just stop.

5. Treat the outside loops as positive values and inside loops as negative values. Add adjacent symbols. Third symbol in chain is the result.

First row: 3 + (-4) = -1
First column: 3 + 2 = 5
Or I could be retarded.

>>9100052
>>9100055
Okay yeah that's what I thought. I did it by rows, didn't realize columns worked too.

>>9100040
Yes cols and rows work. Inside loops negative outside positive and build the sum per row or column. So it is no 5.

>>9100052
Couldn't it be 2 if instead of treating it as positives and negatives we treat it as two independent values? (sum and orientation)

>>9100040
5, loops inside are negative, outside positive, fits for the sums in rows and collums