Mathematicians

[MisterTommyH]

Originally Posted by andrewsmith

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!

Originally Posted by flymo

you mean +2 ? lol

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

Originally Posted by tonyk

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

Originally Posted by Tommy H

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????

Originally Posted by tonyk

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.

Originally Posted by flymo

...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) 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.

buttered toast

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

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

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