
but if I type it into a simple handheld calculator it says 20, presumably tho 'cos I'm not changing the order.
Confusing!
( , Sun 5 Jun 2011, 11:20, Reply)

...because the final operation is multiply by 0, which is always, you guessed, 0.
( , Sun 5 Jun 2011, 11:30, Reply)

sorry I got that wrong!
Jeez it's a LONG time since i had to do math in my head, curse of the modern world I guess!
*edit* Which means I wrote my OP wrong too, DUH! I think I regressed to my 8 yo self when we were taught to do basic maths problems with pennies, I forgot a multiplication by zero is zero rather than thinking of it as unchanged physical objects, same as a division by zero is INFINITY AND BEYOND!!
( , Sun 5 Jun 2011, 11:35, Reply)

and maths as the subject.
I think there's a difference in American English and English English to that end and as ever when that happens the two end up being sort of mashed together.
( , Sun 5 Jun 2011, 12:06, Reply)