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Originally Posted by Bill Verburg
There goes windbag(again), he hasn't a clue so he resorts to spewing bullsh**
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You are the windbag spewing bullsh**.
Look here:
Order of arithmetic operations; in particular, the 48/2(9+3) question.
To quote:
"A problem that hit the Internet in early 2011 is, "What is the value of 48/2(9+3) ?"
Depending on whether one interprets the expression as (48/2)(9+3) or as 48/(2(9+3)) one gets 288 or 2. There is no standard convention as to which of these two ways the expression should be interpreted, so, in fact, 48/2(9+3) is ambiguous. To render it unambiguous, one should write it either as (48/2)(9+3) or 48/(2(9+3)). This applies, in general, to any expression of the form a/bc : one needs to insert parentheses to show whether one means (a/b)c or a/(bc)."
Are you a published Professor Emeritus from an institution as prestigious as the University of California, Berkeley?
George M. Bergman | Department of Mathematics at University of California Berkeley
George M. Bergman -- publications and preprints
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