40+40x0+1 =

RomanNose · 11 Nov 2011 at 16:51

[TW]Sponge;20542214 said:
Who the hell uses algebra and all these stupid things in real life, apart from some maths teacher to teach some other poor kid this useless information and so on....

Never ending circle of ****!

Engineers, physicist, biologists,chemists and every other science you can think of.

[TW]Sponge · 11 Nov 2011 at 16:51

Judgeneo said:
What job do you do?

I deal with operating equipment and stuff for theatres and the general hospital. Does not need a maths qualification afaik.

[TW]Sponge · 11 Nov 2011 at 16:52

nkata said:
I do, daily as a design engineer.

Oh for gods sake, fine you've all proved me wrong!

genan · 11 Nov 2011 at 16:53

[TW]Sponge;20542240 said:
Real life is this way ->

Oh thank god at least you can read

Firestar_3x · 11 Nov 2011 at 16:55

[TW]Sponge;20542266 said:
So because I don't know maths means I'm uneducated?

No, it just means I don't know maths.

I really resent that statement you just made.

Lots of core people important to the actual development, research, invention and the general forwarding of the human race need to know what you've simply flung out as some sort of waste of school lesson time.

I guess that makes them kinda important......

[TW]Sponge · 11 Nov 2011 at 16:58

Firestar_3x said:
Lots of core people important to the actual development, research, invention and the general forwarding of the human race need to know what you've simply flung out as some sort of waste of school lesson time.

I guess that makes them kinda important......

I'm not educated enough to even think about a reply here. You win.

muon · 11 Nov 2011 at 17:33

[TW]Sponge;20542214 said:
Who the hell uses algebra and all these stupid things in real life, apart from some maths teacher to teach some other poor kid this useless information and so on....

Never ending circle of ****!

He says using his electronic gadgets.

Cosimo · 11 Nov 2011 at 17:36

[TW]Sponge;20542288 said:
I deal with operating equipment and stuff for theatres and the general hospital. Does not need a maths qualification afaik.

So they've taught you to press all the right buttons. You're right, all you need is colour recognition.

Nitefly · 11 Nov 2011 at 17:48

RetiredGreyFox · 11 Nov 2011 at 17:50

Hatter The Mad said:
So you never did any algebra?

I did algebra at school during 72/74 but I have never done algebra in my 37 years of working life that would require me to work something out like 40+40*0+1.
I can't see why anybody can have a problem with that :confused:

Cosimo · 11 Nov 2011 at 17:55

Nitefly said:
41!

Writes "he shows great promise" in school report.

Soviet · 11 Nov 2011 at 18:02

RopAyy said:
Im 23 so wasnt that long ago when i took my GCSE's and i never knew about this until now, id have gone with 81 until i read the provided links that schooled me otherwise.

And to those waving around their internet willies above just stick em away, your on a PC based forum unless you show pics of you knee deep in clunge its a given that no one believes you until proven otherwise.

It's not that I'm belittling those that didn't know the correct answer - just those that pretend they did.

I'd be first to put my hands up to the fact I'm rubbish at math.

[TW]Sponge · 11 Nov 2011 at 18:08

Dimple said:
I did algebra at school during 72/74 but I have never done algebra in my 37 years of working life that would require me to work something out like 40+40*0+1.
I can't see why anybody can have a problem with that

Because people in here will think you are inferior to them and call you uneducated.

RetiredGreyFox · 11 Nov 2011 at 18:15

[TW]Sponge;20543022 said:
Because people in here will think you are inferior to them and call you uneducated.

I really don't care.
There are those who think they know everything when basically they are Googling every 5 minutes and there is me who knows nothing but I have mates who do.
If I wanted to know what the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow was I'd come on here and ask.

Globul · 11 Nov 2011 at 18:17

I can't believe this thread is still going :rolleyes:

[TW]Sponge · 11 Nov 2011 at 18:18

Dimple said:
I really don't care.
There are those who think they know everything when basically they are Googling every 5 minutes and there is me who knows nothing but I have mates who do.
If I wanted to know what the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow was I'd come on here and ask.

+1

DBT85 · 11 Nov 2011 at 18:18

[TW]Sponge;20543022 said:
Because people in here will think you are inferior to them and call you uneducated.

You might as well kill yourself if you don't know it tbh. Clearly your life is an utter failure and any success you have achieved upto this point was pure fluke and chance. In fact i'm going to ask my entire family and whoever doesn't know it is going in the river. I couldn't tolerate knowing such troglodytes. :rolleyes:

If you need to use it then it's very important, if you don't then it is utterly irrelevant. It's that simple. I imagine there have been plenty of "important" people in the history of the world who would have no ****ing clue what bidmas/bodmas was.

Dimple said:
If I wanted to know what the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow was I'd come on here and ask.

African or European?

paddy · 11 Nov 2011 at 18:19

Nitefly said:
41!

Wrong.

41! = 3.34525266 × 10^49

fieldy · 11 Nov 2011 at 18:21

[TW]Sponge · 11 Nov 2011 at 18:22

Todge said:
You might as well kill yourself if you don't know it tbh. Clearly your life is an utter failure and any success you have achieved upto this point was pure fluke and chance.

If you need to use it then it's very important, if you don't then it is utterly irrelevant. It's that simple. I imagine there have been plenty of "important" people in the history of the world who would have no ****ing clue what bismas/bodmas was.

Yeah but what I don't like is people telling me to go back to school etc... when I get a maths sum wrong. And people thinking they are better than me because I don't know any maths.

I bet I could out drink them.