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Originally Posted by romad View Post
Passed it around my office

2 Phd in Engineering and physics = 2

4 Master of Mechanical Engineering = 2

5 BS in Engineering = 2

No one got 288
People who work with numbers accept the convention that everything to the right of the division sign is the denominator. I never learned it as a "rule" it's just the way things are done in the technical world. If this equation was in a problem on an engineering exam and you got 288, you would fail the test. If you were designing an actuator for an airplane wing, the plane would crash.
I don't remember the third grade. Maybe if you were in the 3rd grade, you'd pass.
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