40+40x0+1 =

[TW]Sponge;20543144 said:
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.:)
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I agree with you I really do, check my other posts in the thread.

You have skills they don't and they have skills you don't. If we are all the same the conversation would get a little boring wouldn't it?

In my opinion, more important things people should know that they don't but they remember who won the first season of x factor. Each to their own.
 
I had to laugh, from this thread :D - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18340299

Fred said:
2.50 each way, would be 2.50 for a win and 2.50 to be placed 1st,2nd,3rd or 4th.

Since it came in 2nd, you lose 2.50 bet for a win, but win on the 2.50 for a place.

2.50 @ 13/2 is ((6.5 / 4) + 1) x 2.50 = 6.56 (which includes the stake of 2.50)

6.5 = 13/2
/4 is for a place (as you get a quarter of the odds),
+1 is to include your original stake

So basically he would have only won 1.56 :)

Something like that anyway.
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So Fred uses BODMAS every day
 
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.
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African or European swallow?
 
Probably already said/asked, doesn't the 40*0 have to be in brackets to be calculated as 0. Otherwise 40+40 should be added together, then multiplied by 0.
 
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jmc007 said:
Ah right, why? If there is a simple answer.
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Because in order to make sure mathematicians everywhere had a consistent set of rules to follow, that's how it was decided. The order is BODMAS (though other variations exist, the order is the same), Brackets, Orders (squaring, roots etc), Division and Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction, in that order. So, because there are no brackets or orders in the question, you move onto the multiplication, then do the addition.
 
Camarilla said:
Because in order to make sure mathematicians everywhere had a consistent set of rules to follow, that's how it was decided. The order is BODMAS (though other variations exist, the order is the same), Brackets, Orders (squaring, roots etc), Division and Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction, in that order. So, because there are no brackets or orders in the question, you move onto the multiplication, then do the addition.
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So no natural/divine law of mathematics, a standard. Thank you.
 
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