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ShadowCell
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Darqcyde
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| Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Eiden wrote: | | The answer is unambiguous (288) but the process is unclear to most people. |
The convention I was taught growing up states that multiplication is done before division, PEMDAS. If 48÷2(9+3)= were instead written as (48÷2)(9+3)= or 48÷(2(9+3))= then there would be no confusion.
Actually mouse said this back on page 1:
| mouse wrote: | | if you really, really want to work it properly, you put in more parentheses. |
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Eiden
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| Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Realistically, you are demonstrating what I said. Conventions and all. |
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Froggums
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:58 am Post subject: |
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| Darqcyde wrote: | | The convention I was taught growing up states that multiplication is done before division, PEMDAS. |
When I was taught PEMDAS it was parenthesis, exponents, multiplication and division (as one unit), addition and subtraction (as one unit). So when you get to multiplication/division (or addition/subtraction for that matter) you go from left to right as the problem is written since they share the same priority in the order of operations. |
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Dennis J. Squidbunny
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Celaeno
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:38 am Post subject: |
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| Eiden, I like that you're back. |
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CTrees
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-The question itself is inherently flawed - it is obvious whoever wrote it left off a set of braces.
-Left to right is standard.
-Reverse Polish is so much better
-As written, should be interpretted as this: 
-If there's ever a debate like this, try seeing what Wolfram|Alpha says. Seriously, those people know what they're doing.
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bluebeards lot
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This shit is popping up everywhere, even in my goddamn soccerforum. I'm seriously getting pissed off by this shit.
My beautiful, sweet math slandered into a internet-meme. This is disgusting, have those people no shame?
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Samsally
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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| bluebeards lot wrote: | This shit is popping up everywhere, even in my goddamn soccerforum. I'm seriously getting pissed off by this shit.
My beautiful, sweet math slandered into a internet-meme. This is disgusting, have those people no shame? |
Who are you? |
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bluebeards lot
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Samsally wrote: |
Who are you? |
What do you mean?
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Oneponytoruleall
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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| bluebeards lot wrote: | This shit is popping up everywhere, even in my goddamn soccerforum. I'm seriously getting pissed off by this shit.
My beautiful, sweet math slandered into a internet-meme. This is disgusting, have those people no shame? |
Of course, we have shame.
We have so much of it that 'what's a little more gonna matter?'
It's like feeding 15 stray cats in your backyard. Are you really going to notice any difference if there are sixteen? |
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bluebeards lot
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| Oneponytoruleall wrote: |
It's like feeding 15 stray cats in your backyard. Are you really going to notice any difference if there are sixteen? |
Depends, are the 15 gonna devour the 16th one?
Btw i don't know if that was noticeable, but i wasn't really serious about the first post.
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Samsally
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| Then you might have missed that neither was I. |
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Michael
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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| romp store bash |
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mouse
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is godzilla loose again?
where is godzilla anyway, now that we need him?
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