@Metalstorm : Seriously ? I've always been told you have to calculate what's in the parentheses/brackets first.
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| Author: | MetalStorm [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:13 am ] |
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Which is it: A.288 B.2 |
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| Author: | Bruce_Bitenfils [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:17 am ] |
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It's 2. Edit : because of the parentheses of course. Edit #2 : parentheses you're actually calling "brackets" in your fucking language. Edit #3 : Oh, it seems you people also say "parentheses". Good for you. |
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| Author: | MetalStorm [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:25 am ] |
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Bruce_Bitenfils wrote: It's 2.
Edit : because of the parentheses of course. You know something. This has gotten all over the net over the last few days and everyone from math professors to engineers to the average joe are divided on this. Some say 288 and some say 2. I gotten 2 because of PEMDAS but everyone is saying that L2R(Left to Right)is the right way to solve it. At this stage I don't know anymore. |
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| Author: | traptunderice [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:27 am ] |
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Fucking PEMDAS. Whoever says 288 is fucking stupid. Why would you ever divide the 48 by the 2 when the two still has to be distributed to what is in the parentheses and it is in relation to. We call them parentheses. |
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| Author: | Bruce_Bitenfils [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:30 am ] |
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@Metalstorm : Seriously ? I've always been told you have to calculate what's in the parentheses/brackets first.
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| Author: | traptunderice [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:37 am ] |
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http://www.google.com/search?q=48%C3%B7 ... =firefox-a Google has undermined my high school education. Fuck google. This is totally bullshit. |
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| Author: | MetalStorm [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:39 am ] |
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Bruce_Bitenfils wrote: @Metalstorm : Seriously ? I've always been told you have to calculate what's in the parentheses/brackets first.
I was taught the same way go figure. |
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| Author: | Bruce_Bitenfils [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:43 am ] |
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traptunderice wrote: Fucking PEMDAS. Whoever says 288 is fucking stupid. Why would you ever divide the 48 by the 2 when the two still has to be distributed to what is in the parentheses and it is in relation to. We call them parentheses. Exactly, and thanks. Careful with the internet and everything science-related. I've seen people maintaining dragons really existed 500+ years ago, and disappeared because knights slain them all. People who were claiming having studied history. I'm told you have plenty of people like that, in the US. You should put them in zoos, they are fun to watch and listen to. trapt wrote: http://www.google.com/search?q=48%C3%B72%289%2B3%29&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Google has undermined my high school education. Fuck google. This is totally bullshit. WTF ?!
Shit, I'm a PhD candidate in economics, I manipulate advanced statistic models among other things, and when asked "48÷2(9+3)=?" I'm not so sure anymore what the right answer is. I'm such a joke. Happy, MetalStorm ? Are you happy ?!! |
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| Author: | Ness [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:58 am ] |
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My scientific calculator got 2, as did I when I first saw this post. |
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| Author: | Bruce_Bitenfils [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 5:02 am ] |
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metalNESS wrote: My scientific calculator got 2, as did I when I first saw this post.
Google just got owned by a TI-82. |
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| Author: | Bruce_Bitenfils [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 5:10 am ] |
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MATLAB, Python, C, Wolfram Alpha, Google, PHP, Perl, and Ruby all say 288. I want to fucking die. |
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| Author: | MetalStorm [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 5:19 am ] |
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Excel says 288 too 
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| Author: | Kathaarian [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:05 am ] |
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EVERYTHING I'VE EVER LEARNED IS WRONG! |
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| Author: | traptunderice [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:15 pm ] |
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Kathaarian wrote: EVERYTHING I'VE EVER LEARNED IS WRONG! I'm seriously having that moment. When I took the damn GRE was I doing it wrong. Argh!
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| Author: | crast [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:48 pm ] |
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48÷2(9+3)=288 48÷[2(9+3)]=2 .:crast:. edit: If it had been written like this: Quote: 48÷2*12
it would be easy no? What seems to be throwing people off, is the thought that because the * is not written out, the multiplication gets precedence over the division. (by juxtaposition). Personally I would make sure to have enough brackets/parenthases to not cause such ambiguity. |
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| Author: | traptunderice [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:16 pm ] |
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Oh. 48/2*(9+3). |
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| Author: | Bruce_Bitenfils [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 1:57 pm ] |
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*Frenetic facepalm* Lesson learned. |
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| Author: | Metastable To Chaos [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 3:26 pm ] |
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Bruce_Bitenfils wrote: It's 2.
Edit : because of the parentheses of course. Edit #2 : parentheses you're actually calling "brackets" in your fucking language. Edit #3 : Oh, it seems you people also say "parentheses". Good for you.
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| Author: | noodles [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:53 pm ] |
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Thought basically the same thing as crast. |
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| Author: | The_Voice [ Tue Apr 12, 2011 6:05 pm ] |
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288 here, the problem lies in the division sign, everything gets clearer if you think of it as a fraction, you wouldnt normally write a division sign while doing equations. |
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