Mathematicians

[MisterTommyH]

I thought that was 8? (joke)

I think it depends on everyone background. I read it like a load calculation where the divide is below and not the way it should have been.
Well, then I even struggle with Tan cos and Sin formulea's as I was never taught the rules (I had to ask a lecturer on the 3rd year of a course to teach me the calculations, how much of a tit do you think I felt)

Andy,

I still write SO/H CA/H TO/A at the top of every trig page...... and you can forget anything like cosh.....thats what computers are for!

[kiggles]

you mean +2 ? lol :-)

I have to admit I am very surprised at the even split of answers on here.

:smt073

how the heck do you make it 7 ?....only if 6 is divided by 2 and are in brackest and the are not.

:smt075


Andy,

I still write SO/H CA/H TO/A at the top of every trig page...... and you can forget anything like cosh.....thats what computers are for!


Silly Old Hitler SOH

Couldnt Advance His CAH

Troops Over Afica TOA



sounds like? suck my toe???? :smt078

[enzoalex]

how the heck do you make it 7 ?....only if 6 is divided by 2 and are in brackest and the are not.

Because you divide / multiply before you add / subtract.

Brackets come first.

then Divide / multiply

then add / subtract.

[thulfi]

...and while we are here "Happy 100th post!". I didnt think we would stretch to two pages.

lol, tell me bout it. Are people just posting opinions on this thread and not actually trying to read the posts and learn?!

1. The Sun is our solar systems star.
2. Water is 2 hydrogens and 1 oxygen atom.
3. Force = mass x acceleration
4. BIDMAS!!!!
5. Answer to flymos sum is 7!
(6. Heavy metal is the law!)

We couldn't make a 10+ page thread (I hope:confused:) out of the first three, how has the org managed to drag this one out?!

There is no opinion about this. That's what's astonishing about the longevity of this thread.

[kiggles]

buttered toast

[Specialone]

I don't think bidmas had been invented when I was at school, never heard of it until this thread.

It's funny how many people thinks it's 5 though ;)

[timwilky]

whilst certainly it was something that I never recall learning at school (I may have been skiving that day) it was again never mentioned whilst I studied maths at college and even doing an additional second maths module at uni. I expect the lecturers would have assumed you would have that knowledge.

I picked it up though 30 years of code cutting. Every language manual you will ever read will have a section on expressions and associated operator precedence.

[TamSV]

It was certainly taught to me at school. That's how I know it's 7. ;)

[dizzyblonde]

Meh, scientist, mathemaaatician, engineer(these are the worst they're always wrong).........


I'm a housewife, and certainly didn't use bigfoots toe to calculate the question, bish bash bosh and an abacus, is all it needs ;)

[kiggles]

Meh, scientist, mathemaaatician, engineer(these are the worst they're always wrong).........


you forgot to put government on the list, just after engineer. government gets everything wrong

[Shawthing]

2. Water is 2 hydrogens and 1 oxygen atom.
(6. Heavy metal is the law!)

2. Apart from the 1/6420th that is Deuterium oxide [Heavy water].
6. Tell that to Judas Priest . Sings 'Breaking the law , breaking the law'

I know 5. is right though.( as in the answer being 7)

[MisterTommyH]

engineer(these are the worst they're always wrong).........


Erm,

Excuse me! We may over design stuff, but we are rarely 'wrong'. As least not in comparison to most of the other disciplines we work with...:smt036

[davepreston]

Erm,

Excuse me! We may over design stuff, but we are rarely 'wrong'. As least not in comparison to most of the other disciplines we work with...:smt036

ahem i assume you dont build planes cos the enginners in my place are always wrong
hence why you will never see me in a nimrod or a eurofighter

add to that ratty actually builds the things so im surprised they dont just fall apart on the runway



runs away

[andrewsmith]

ahem i assume you dont build planes cos the enginners in my place are always wrong
hence why you will never see me in a nimrod or a eurofighter

add to that ratty actually builds the things so im surprised they dont just fall apart on the runway



runs away

Define engineer Mr Preston, we talking designers?

[MisterTommyH]

Nah,

I'm not a 'real' engineer Dave. Just buildings and similar **** that people seem to get upset about if it falls down, so we get away with being overly cautious and not particularly economical - although that's how the codes of practice are designed rather than us being OTT. (Of course that will never be admitted to any member of any design team that I work with - H&S is a great thing to rely on when people think a beam might fall on their heads).

It might be 'wrong' but we're so far on the right side it's very unlikely to fail.

Obviously if anyone I work with reads this, all the above is completely tongue in cheek and everything that goes out of our office is value engineered to the bone!

Edit: and no, I wouldn't go in a Nimrod either.

[dizzyblonde]

you forgot to put government on the list, just after engineer. government gets everything wrong

Its funny as I did start to write a post along those lines:D I added to the government, the bankers of the world, after all, because of their inability to count the whole planet is in financial meltdown:rolleyes:.......


edit.....that should be inappropriate use of counting.

[SoulKiss]

Its funny as I did start to write a post along those lines:D I added to the government, the bankers of the world, after all, because of their inability to count the whole planet is in financial meltdown:rolleyes:.......

Look at their personal bank accounts and you will see that the bankers most definately know how to count.

Can't blame them for everything, they were just greedy in a different way to the rest of us.

They may have gotten us in to this by offering cheap credit and "inventing" money, but we didn't need to take them up on it.

[AndyBrad]

Meh, scientist, mathemaaatician, engineer(these are the worst they're always wrong).........


I'm a housewife, and certainly didn't use bigfoots toe to calculate the question, bish bash bosh and an abacus, is all it needs ;)


go get a real job and stop scrounging off us taxpayers ;)

[dizzyblonde]

p1$$ off Andy. I don't 'scrounge' off anybody.

[dizzyblonde]

Look at their personal bank accounts and you will see that the bankers most definately know how to count.

.



Precisely my point :D

[DJFridge]

Back to the OP, I just got 7 after wine and beer (which mentally makes me 11 again).

oh, Dizzy, it's not "bankers know how to count", it's "bankers are c......" sorry, we're U rated here aren't we.

[Bluefish]

45 think 5, only 38 think 7 :smt079

[lx_online]

It's 7.

BODMAS isn't an excuse, it's here to help solve ambiguity just like this.

It's because of this that programmers bracket the hell out of everything to make it clear.

[lx_online]

45 think 5, only 38 think 7 :smt079

Check this:
45 - 38 = 7.
:D

[Bluefish]

no it's meant to be plus, lol good find :D

[mikerj]

Silly Old Hitler SOH

Couldnt Advance His CAH

Troops Over Afica TOA



Someone (a pupil, not a teacher!) told me another way of remembering this in school, and it's stuck in my head ever since!

Sex On Helicopters Can Affect Health Terribly Or Amazingly.

[MisterTommyH]

So, the latest one doing the rounds on Facebook is:

1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 -1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 x 0 = 0, 14, 16 or 17?

[enzoalex]

So, the latest one doing the rounds on Facebook is:

1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 -1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 x 0 = 0, 14, 16 or 17?

14, unless the minus is supposed to be plus, in which case it'd be 16

[Stenno]

15?

[Ed]

15?

+1

I mean, I agree:lol:

And the answer to the first quezzie is 5.

[Bluefish]

0 innit?

[andrewsmith]

http://theaxemen.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/ayecarumbaoj3.jpg

[Ed]

I need my log tables and slide rule, I could manage with they:cool:

[TamSV]

14

[MisterTommyH]

Ha ha,

I love it. Put that in a thread in which BODMAS has been explained 3 or more times and you still get an answer thats not even one of the options.

It's 14. Trust me.

[flymo]

14

[littleoldman2]

Aye page 14

[Tomor]

So, the latest one doing the rounds on Facebook is:

1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 -1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 x 0 = 0, 14, 16 or 17?

0, anything x0 is 0

Tom

[enzoalex]

0, anything x0 is 0

Tom

Fail,

BODMAS (multiplication before addition, so the 0 is only multiplied by one 1.)

so it works out to be .... + 1 + 1 + 0

[BanannaMan]

I always hated this kind of math in school.
And now realizing I still do.

[flymo]

Fail,

BODMAS (multiplication before addition, so the 0 is only multiplied by one 1.)

so it works out to be .... + 1 + 1 + 0

Correct. The trick here is to figure out what gets multiplied by zero, without brackets this is only the 1 immediately to the left of the 'x' operator.

[krhall]

Isn't it BIDMAS these days?

I correctly identified a fibonacce sequence the other day in a Grammar School and was most impressed with myself.

[bluebird]

So, the latest one doing the rounds on Facebook is:

1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 -1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 x 0 = 0, 14, 16 or 17?

it's 14..........i used a spreadsheet **blush** :oops:

[timwilky]

yup definitely 14.

So for a simple one what is 1 ÷ 0?

[MisterTommyH]

Not a real number.

[flymo]

it isn't possible to divide a number by zero. zero isn't a legal denominator in a fraction.