Strange
I was only taught that brackets came first, I thought the answer was 0 too.
I did higher level Maths in secondary school, but this is the first I heard of any BIDMAS/PODMAS rule.
(, Sun 5 Jun 2011, 11:29, Reply)
Well I'm glad I'm not the only one with the balls to admit they never knew about it
out of curiousity what age are you as I'm wondering if this was simply accidentally missed off of the teachers text books back in the day (I'm 43).
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..wil, Sun 5 Jun 2011, 11:32,
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I'm glad you mentioned it...
...we've got a fairly lively discussion going and a whole lot of knowledgable people all saying they've been taught different things at school...
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I started doing Maths at 'A'-level and I remember being taught Multiplication came before Division (as has also been mentioned here).
I guess, within a given group of people (say, a regional area) if everyone uses the same notation, it doesn't matter as everyone will get the same answer. It's when you go wider that you get problems...
(, Sun 5 Jun 2011, 11:39, Reply)
What freeks me about this tho is my concept of the application of math is apparently entirely wrong and has been all my life
yet my application of it day to day has always produced the answers *I* perceive as correct and it's always done what I expected it to.
That's really rather odd, you would have thought at some point I'd have had something throw up an anomaly that made me think 'WTF!?' and question what I was doing wrong, esp when using ye olde computers that had to be programmed...
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..wil, Sun 5 Jun 2011, 11:46,
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You don't need to be good at maths to program computers.
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JamTallons, Sun 5 Jun 2011, 17:57,
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Hahaha!
Yeh ya just used the Dragon 32's preloaded games engine that emulated 3 dimensional physics for you, eh?
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..wil, Sun 5 Jun 2011, 20:58,
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Dragon 32!? Ha ha ha!
I had a proper computer - 64 all the way. :-).
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JamTallons, Mon 6 Jun 2011, 21:53,
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I'm 24, so I don't think it has to do with when we were in school.
I'm also Irish so maybe our curriculum hasn't caught up yet?
(, Sun 5 Jun 2011, 13:10, Reply)