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  1. monacoger

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    **** them mate, we can have our own party! I have got loads of maths teasers for us.
     
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  2. monacoger

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    If it is all the same, I think I'll maybe take a rain check on that, to be honest it sounds pretty pish to me.
     
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  3. Jip Jaap Stam

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    You do the bit in the brackets first ffs, so it's 288.

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    None of you ****s learn BODMAS at school?
     
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    Get him one of these (£11.74 on Amazon) and trouser the remaining £238.26.

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    It's a win-win situation.
     
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    That doesn't matter a **** in this instance though, nobody is disputing the fact that 9+3 is 12!!
     
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  6. Hash.

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    bodmas ... pfft the answer is 2(88)
     
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  7. jenthesaint1990

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    i like it <ok>
     
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    i didnt do the brackets first but got the right answer
     
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    It's not ambiguous to me. 48/2(9+3), you add 9 and 3 first because they are in the brackets, hence 12, then you divide by 48 by 2, hence 24, then multiply 12 by 24 = 288. BODMAS!!!!
     
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    You have 24 and 12 with no operator between them. Why did you assume they should be multiplied?
     
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  13. jenthesaint1990

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    because thats what you do!
     
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    Maths geek ITT, i'm out.
     
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    When something is next to brackets with no symbol, you multiply.
     
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  16. Otto Flayshow

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    I thought in mathematical notation you needed a dot operator in there.

    In any case, I'm coming at it from a programming angle and any language I've coded in you need an *
     
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  17. monacoger

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    Well,if you bothered to read one of my many other interesting posts, the one stating that the 48 could be the numerator and the 2(9+3) could be the denominator, it would be ****ing ambiguous!<grr>
     
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  18. Jip Jaap Stam

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    I know **** all about programming, but the BODMAS/BOMDAS maths lessons stick in my head for some reason.

    I'm sorry but I cannot respond to the above post as I did not read it.
     
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    Hahaha cheeky ****! In other words I win! On another note, you know that bot thing mrroy59 or whatever it was, I don't think even Edge could pull that off, any chance of deleting/banning it, it did my **** in today.
     
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  20. Otto Flayshow

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    I was never taught BODMAS, but I still remember the SOH-CAH-TOA mnemonic for the formulae for right-angled triangles. Shame I haven't had to use it since the 80s. <wah>
     
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