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Dec 28th, 2012, 08:35 PM
#1
How things add up
I got this wrong when it was said as a sentence:
What is forty plus forty times zero plus one? I said one. The person that asked me said no it is forty one. I plugged that into a program as:
Dim X as long
X = 40 + 40 * 0 + 1
msgbox(X)
and the answer came out as 41 which is correct.
I've never been good at math but I remember now something about doing multiplication and division first followed by adding and subtracting. What I can't remember is what mathmatical rule(s) that is called.
Anyone know?
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Dec 28th, 2012, 09:21 PM
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Dec 28th, 2012, 09:43 PM
#3
Re: How things add up
BODMAS = Brackets Order (Of) Division Multiplication Addition and Subtraction
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Dec 30th, 2012, 06:45 AM
#4
Re: How things add up
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