Post me your hardest maths question you know
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The cup is too big.
You got to laugh at some claiming others don't understand infinity and aren't intelligent enough to when the same could be said about them, they need to accept that yes you can mess about with numbers using certain rules and get an 'answer' but that doesn't mean others accept it as anything but mathematical trickery in a sense that has no baring on reality.
You can't get a true answer from an infinite number as its impossible, even with infinite time and an infinitely complex calculator, no i think some of us understand infinity much better if anything.
You can't get a true answer from an infinite number as its impossible, even with infinite time and an infinitely complex calculator, no i think some of us understand infinity much better if anything.
a number greater than, or equal to 1
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If you're going to play with maths, you have to play by its rules.
Please understand that if mathematics/logic says something is true, then denying it makes you categorically wrong
(Unless you want to live in your own world with your own axioms.)I know that you're unable to accept anything that opposes your opinions though, so I'll leave it there.
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Why do you keep repeating this with your +£2 nonsense? Are you just trying to give someone a seizure through sheer frustration?
Because it would be +2. -2 suggest the waiter took £2 from the £27 they paid which is incorrect.
Im pretty sure you are right
No it's not because that is correct.
They have paid £27 (3 x £9) for a £25 meal, and the waiter has taken the £2 from that £27 leaving £25 to go in the till for the meal.
I can't believe after all the responses directed at you, that you genuinely don't understand the answer to that problem, you must be on a wind up
Must be missing something here. Thats exactly what the waiter does.
They pay £30 and get 1 pound back per person.
That makes £27 that the 3 guys have paid.
The waiter then takes £2 from that to give the till the correct amount of £25.
Im sure that we are just explaining the same thing here but from different angles but you have me confused.
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IF HE HAS 30 POUNDS, FROM THE PEOPLE WHO GAVE HIM IT, HE THEN GIVES 3 POUND BACK.
HE HAS 27 POUND. WHERE DOES THIS 2 POUND COME FROM?!?!!?!?!?!
DOES HE MAGIC IT?
sorry for caps but you're frustrating me.
Was he travelling to St Ives on a Conveyor belt?
As for some of the calculus stuff, I'm glad I forgot how to do all that, I hated it. All the pure maths stuff does my head in. Proper, applied maths that I don't have to ask "what's the point?" about is fine though.
Applied maths is mostly "calculus stuff" though...
Calculus was, after all, invented by an applied mathematician/physicist....
Are you trolling?
They paid £30:
£27 of which was taken away and is made up of the £25 cost of the meal and the £2 the waiter kept. They were given £3 in change.
£25 (meal) + £2 (waiter) + £3 (change) = £30
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God, I love it when you guys get your maths geek on! It's just so ... adorably cute 