40+40x0+1 =

Craterloads said:
I get that a little bit. But if you can remember how we were tought in school with physical object, usualy stones or pebles.

So for example if ive PHYSICALLY got 40 pebles on the left side of the table and other side of the table i have 0 pebles. If i multiply them i still have the 40 pebles on the left hand side of the table or where do they go.
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That's addition.
 
Quink said:
Well...no - not if adding spurious brackets into equations has anything to do with it.

I have not/was not/haven't been ever taught the whole brackets/no brackets/use this set of rules regarding adding brackets/no brackets ever. Not ever. I did do many years at school - none of your ideologies were taught though. Add brackets where there are none.

At least I learned Inglish and music :)
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I do apologise for the awful post above - many pints of beer have been imbibed, and the above rhetoric should be stricken from the record :)
 
I don't know why I am or people are even bothering.

Quink insists that because he was never taught, the rule does not exist, and also because he has a B in GCSE Maths, that he must have had the necessary maths education and thus he is correct in this matter.

That kind of stubbornness cannot be reason with.
 
For all those saying it's not 41. You're wrong, and that's the end of it. If you disagree, go look it up, because you're wrong.

41 is correct and no other answer is. Even in hex or octal the answer is still 41.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I don't know why I am or people are even bothering.

Quink insists that because he was never taught, the rule does not exist, and also because he has a B in GCSE Maths, that he must have had the necessary maths education and thus he is correct in this matter.

That kind of stubbornness cannot be reason with.
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I have NEVER said the rule does not exist, just that I have never been taught it. Get your facts right.
 
Mason- said:
For all those saying it's not 41. You're wrong, and that's the end of it. If you disagree, go look it up, because you're wrong.

41 is correct and no other answer is. Even in hex or octal the answer is still 41.
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It's twelvetyfour. FACT.
 
Quink said:
I have NEVER said the rule does not exist, just that I have never been taught it. Get your facts right.
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So if it does exist then what on earth are you arguing about?

What has this B in GCSE has got to do with anything?

If you acknowledge it exist then you are admitting that you are wrong.
 
UncleRuckus said:
Like your facts? It really says a lot about a person's character who can persistently Troll for an evening. Your children will turn out like **** off my boots.

I'm out.
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My children will always own your ass. I seriously hope you can live with that ;)

/edit - UNCLE ;)
 
Quink said:
Well bloody show them then. Just because you say I'm wrong......I say you're wrong........prove it :eek::p
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The standard order of operations defines how it should be calculated... and in what order. It is internationally standardised so there isn't ant confusion about how to process something without the need for explicit brackets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations#The_standard_order_of_operations

So, to process 40 + 40 * 0 + 1 you process it as 40 + (40 * 0) + 1 when following the standard order of operations.

I'll break it down for you:

40 + (40 * 0) + 1

= 40 + 0 + 1

= 41

That was easy, wasn't it
 
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