48÷2(9+3) = ???

[infinite monkey]

oh for christ's fuck

I'd like "names for male animals" for $1,000.

Alex: This hairy and regressive creature lives in the depths of cellars and regularly pounds his chest and salivates at the sight of boobies.

[infinite monkey]

Webster was American.

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by Cloud

not sure where the southern/yankee thing comes in?

Rather than relying on Wikipedia so you can turn around and belittle the poster for that, as above, I turned to Websters Dictionary, which defines brackets as:

"either of the pair of signs [ ], or sometimes < > used to enclose a word or words inserted as for explanation, quantities to be taken as a single quantity, etc."

parentheses are not mentioned.

exactly cloud

and Big V. I assume that because, like the others who think 288 is the correct answer, based on the common assumption of bedmas, which HLJ points out, excel gives the answer of 288. Doesn't the financial/ business world trust excel to give the common( generally assumed answer) If the spreadsheet is going to go off half cocked and assume a notation other than what is written, I say, Cock too.

To get the answer of 2, a person would have to rewrite the notation using brackets. [ ]

[infinite monkey]

Wow, I'm too dumb to be here.

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

288.

In spite of MDAS, Multiplication and Division are equal in precedence. Evaluation proceeds from left to right. The use of the 2(..) notation for multiplication is tempting you to treat 2(9+3) as a single unit. 48 / 2 x (9+3), with the multiplication sign written out, seems less ambiguous (though I don't think it is).


Again, it's a screwy example.

yes

[infinite monkey]

Damn, it's like some knights of some round table all up in heah.

So, tell me, (no matter what you call the damn things) how does making them curvy or making them squared have anything to do with the conundrum of the problem?

It's like...oh you know what? That 9 has a curvy bottom, therefore it must be multiplied by the half-life of the foundation of the numerator. Now, if it were STRAIGHT, that there would be a whole different story. That right there would tell you that the product of the synapse near the juncture would be 23. [\thinktanktrifecta]

[Nirvana]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

Wow, I'm too dumb to be here.

May I join you?

[wolf]

Please My Dear Aunt Sally = 288

[infinite monkey]

Get out while the gettin's good, 'vana, it's a damn clusterfuck!

[skysidhe]

I actually hate math

[Trilby]

I, too, actually hate meth.





I mean math. I hate math.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

So, tell me, (no matter what you call the damn things) how does making them curvy or making them squared have anything to do with the conundrum of the problem?

They're worlds apart. Like the difference between a dash and a hyphen. Like a capital I and a roman numeral I. Like tomato and tomato.

[Trilby]

Willfull obtuse-ness.

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

They're worlds apart. Like the difference between a dash and a hyphen. Like a capital I and a roman numeral I. Like tomato and tomato.

How, tell me how?

One means something other than the other one means? Please, tell me. I don't remember that from math class.

[monster]

Originally Posted by Cloud

not sure where the southern/yankee thing comes in?

Rather than relying on Wikipedia so you can turn around and belittle the poster for that, as above, I turned to Websters Dictionary, which defines brackets as:

"either of the pair of signs [ ], or sometimes < > used to enclose a word or words inserted as for explanation, quantities to be taken as a single quantity, etc."

parentheses are not mentioned.

Well you said you stayed awake in English, so one would think you could manage a litle Gone With The Wind reference? Or should we call it American in your case. When trying to solve an international language difference, let's see, shall we use an American dictionary, or an international source readily available at the fingertips? Hmmmm. One which actually does contain the answers you seek. I would post them for you, but, Miss Cloud O'Hara, it's about damn time you learned to do some stuff for yourself. Or you could not think about it today, if you can't possibly bear it, after all, tomorrow is another day.