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#181 February 20, 2009, 11:18:08 pm

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another brit here
I've not taken a math class for 5 years and I could barely remember what BODMASS stood for!
I think the secret here is you don't need to ever look at math again once you've gone past compulsory education in the UK whereas I'm near certain at a US college math classes are required. I use basic math in everyday life e.g. adding, money, percentages and I'm not suprised I can barely remember any of this

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#182 February 20, 2009, 11:19:14 pm

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I don't want to blame the UK education system but it isn't really very good!

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#183 February 20, 2009, 11:20:01 pm

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Also I got the question right only because I assumed it was a trick and -16 looked the most obvious answer...

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#184 February 20, 2009, 11:23:08 pm

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Again, you don't need to know what "BODMASS" means to know that 1+2*3 is 7! Who the fuck gives a fuck about acronyms, especially when they're just to help you learn something. After you know what you need to know, you can forget the stupid acronym.

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#185 February 20, 2009, 11:24:42 pm

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wow this poll is way tighter than I thought it'd be and I know some of you were around the first time!

ahahah DID NO ONE GET CONVINCED THE FIRST TIME.

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#186 February 20, 2009, 11:25:22 pm

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Quote from: Magical Negro on February 20, 2009, 11:10:35 pm

in retrospect im an ass but im shaming you into math...

i still trumped rami at maths. you will never triumph me in this department.

also as i kept saying it's not i DIDNT KNOW WHAT ORDER OF OPERATIONS WAS (i said i did ok, just couldnt remember the acronym), but it's just that a lot of people don't

edit: also the people who get it wrong in both topics are just retards. i am guessing by the amount of replies here that the majority of people replying didn't see it originally? (i didn't, obviously)

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#187 February 20, 2009, 11:25:37 pm

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Quote from: Magical Negro on February 20, 2009, 11:24:42 pm

wow this poll is way tighter than I thought it'd be and I know some of you were around the first time!

ahahah DID NO ONE GET CONVINCED THE FIRST TIME.

NEVER!

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#188 February 20, 2009, 11:26:41 pm

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it depends on how you implement order of operations

edit: fuck mathematical convention

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#189 February 20, 2009, 11:26:53 pm

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Quote from: ramirez on February 20, 2009, 11:23:08 pm

Again, you don't need to know what "BODMASS" means to know that 1+2*3 is 7! Who the fuck gives a fuck about acronyms, especially when they're just to help you learn something. After you know what you need to know, you can forget the stupid acronym.

I don't think you quite understand the repeated references to the Mnemonic mean!

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#190 February 20, 2009, 11:27:54 pm

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it comes up because people like Rockman and Mark couldn't really remember what it meant!

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#191 February 20, 2009, 11:29:52 pm

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I voted for 16, but now after reading through the article on Wikipedia I see that both answers would make sense, but -16 would be correct. I never learned the proper order of operations, I suppose. I just assumed that -4 was accepted as only that, not -1*4. Or something.