1. Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!

Off Topic Just for Mr RAWhite

Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by Smug in Boots, Jan 19, 2015.

  1. Comfy

    Comfy Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Sep 26, 2019
    Messages:
    2,865
    Likes Received:
    6,090
  2. Montysoptician

    Montysoptician Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 26, 2011
    Messages:
    5,360
    Likes Received:
    11,021
    If you have two (x) tenner's that’s twenty quid, so if your lass gives you another (+) tenner that’s thirty quid and not the forty quid it would be calculating from left to right Roger.
    10 + 10 x 2
    That's why my missus slips me the odd tenner because she thinks I am always hard up <laugh>
     
    #9022
    MrRAWhite and Makemstine Roger like this.
  3. HoratioCarter

    HoratioCarter Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    337
    Likes Received:
    640
    Then why not use the brackets in the first place.
     
    #9023
  4. Evil Jimmy Krankie

    Evil Jimmy Krankie Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Sep 25, 2019
    Messages:
    1,591
    Likes Received:
    3,582
    You’ve underlined something and asked a question that I honestly don’t understand the relevance of. Is it a criticism or an observation or both?
     
    #9024
  5. HoratioCarter

    HoratioCarter Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    337
    Likes Received:
    640

    A simple question. As you use brackets in your explanation, why are they not used originally?
     
    #9025
    Last edited: Mar 6, 2021
  6. Brainman

    Brainman Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Sep 25, 2019
    Messages:
    1,402
    Likes Received:
    5,836
    Bracket lives matter!
     
    #9026
  7. Evil Jimmy Krankie

    Evil Jimmy Krankie Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Sep 25, 2019
    Messages:
    1,591
    Likes Received:
    3,582
    Short answer is I don’t know. I just worked it out using the mathematical conventions that I was taught as a young lad.
     
    #9027
    MrRAWhite and Montysoptician like this.
  8. Makemstine Roger

    Makemstine Roger Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    58,363
    Likes Received:
    113,952
    wrong mate your example quotes i have 2 x10s that's 20 quid my lass gives me another + 10 as per your example i now have 30 quid if she x it you have 40
    you could not build an improvised bridge to take x amount of tonnage using that form of calculation

    2 tenners + is the same as 2 tenners x and plus ten as in your is 30
     
    #9028
    Last edited: Mar 7, 2021
  9. Draig

    Draig Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Sep 27, 2019
    Messages:
    2,275
    Likes Received:
    5,412
    Simple answer is that mathematically they aren't needed. I suspect that @Evil Jimmy Krankie, like me was taught that adding the brackets helps you to identify the separate parts of a sum. They also make it easier to show your working out for a teacher doing the marking.
     
    #9029
    Evil Jimmy Krankie likes this.
  10. Comfy

    Comfy Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Sep 26, 2019
    Messages:
    2,865
    Likes Received:
    6,090
    This place used to be good and very funny now it just seems I’m back at fecking school in a maths lesson. Can we not just get back to what the OP made it for
     
    #9030

  11. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 27, 2011
    Messages:
    53,539
    Likes Received:
    112,722
    I started a business selling cockles, mussels & whelks, bought all the available catch ...

    .... to be honest it was shellfish <doh>
     
    #9031
    Gil T Azell and Comfy like this.
  12. Montysoptician

    Montysoptician Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 26, 2011
    Messages:
    5,360
    Likes Received:
    11,021
    No Roger, you are wrong. I tried to explain it as simply as possible. If you want to calculate 10 + 10 x 2 from left to right you would need to write the equation (10 + 10) x 2, but in the absence of brackets BODMAS applies.

    I charge £40 per hour for lessons so it's probably cheaper just to Google BODMAS <ok>
     
    #9032
  13. Montysoptician

    Montysoptician Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 26, 2011
    Messages:
    5,360
    Likes Received:
    11,021
    please log in to view this image

    <laugh><laugh><laugh>
     
    #9033
  14. Evil Jimmy Krankie

    Evil Jimmy Krankie Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Sep 25, 2019
    Messages:
    1,591
    Likes Received:
    3,582
    You’re no doubt right Roger but we’re talking counting chickens eggs and bananas mate. Anyway, the chickens could try and fly, the eggs could float across (if the bridge was over water; if not then **** em) and you could chuck the bananas, that’s assuming of course they don’t return as they are a similar shape to the traditional image of a boomerang which is noted for returning.
     
    #9034
  15. Gil T Azell

    Gil T Azell Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    18,540
    Likes Received:
    42,617
  16. Brainman

    Brainman Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Sep 25, 2019
    Messages:
    1,402
    Likes Received:
    5,836
    So (10+10)*2 needs brackets.
    10+(10*2) doesn’t need brackets.
    Maths used to be a much more rigorous discipline when I studied it.
    This is just pandering to laziness.


    Anyway.
    Thanks for teaching me the meaning of plethora.
    It means a lot.
    :cheesy:
     
    #9036
  17. MrRAWhite

    MrRAWhite Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    26,980
    Likes Received:
    14,258
    please log in to view this image
     
    #9037
    Nig, Makemstine Roger, Saf and 5 others like this.
  18. Deletion Requested1

    Deletion Requested1 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 31, 2011
    Messages:
    5,226
    Likes Received:
    3,624
    Beat me to it by 8 mins:cheesy:
     
    #9038
  19. Comfy

    Comfy Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Sep 26, 2019
    Messages:
    2,865
    Likes Received:
    6,090
    Latest news on the Corona virus
    The Army gave it a stores number now no-one can get it.
     
    #9039
  20. Gordon Armstrong

    Gordon Armstrong Just another S.A.F.C. fan
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Jan 26, 2011
    Messages:
    21,986
    Likes Received:
    87,575

Share This Page