Re: Quiz Call - Do The Math Yourself...

Steve Walton wrote: 
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:56:33 -0000, "John Rowland"
<johnr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"JPG" <j_peasemold_gruntfuttock@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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X201 wrote:

It's 379

You have to do the multiplication before the addition

7+(31*12) is what the sum actually is. 

I haven't seen the TV but couldn't it equally well be
(7+31)*12?  In fact, if the order shown above is correct,
the second method would definitely apply.


No. Multiplication always takes precedence over addition, unless brackets
force a different order. Doesn't anyone do maths in school these days?


BODMAS - those were the days. 

It wasn't PC in some ways.  For the resistor colour codes we had;

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Virgins Go Without.



Richard.
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