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Renegade:
Did some people not learn BEDMAS? I didn't find much humour in that 6-1*0+2/2 stuff. It just seemed sad that some people couldn't manage that.
But, in my FAVOURITE calculator...
Have you ever wondered WHY we have adopted the order of operator precedence that dictates multiplication and division happen before addition and subtraction?
There is a nice discussion of it here:
http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52582.html
Like many things that we accept as "settled" -- there is an entire fascinating history and culture of debate, discovery, and disagreement underlying all of it.
-mouser (October 13, 2015, 09:00 AM)
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Thanks for that. :up:
IainB:
...that 6-1*0+2/2 stuff. It just seemed sad that some people couldn't manage that. ...
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-Renegade (October 13, 2015, 09:05 PM)
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Yes, well, I did use the word "embarrassing". It was rather ironic as well.
Arizona Hot:
Was Gregory Peck very peckish?
MilesAhead:
Was Gregory Peck very peckish?
-Arizona Hot (October 14, 2015, 11:22 AM)
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I don't know. But I am curious if he was ever groped by director Sam Peckinpah.
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