Sapper PE LS
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Ha! I was just sitting here trying to figure out the 56 too! I can't do it.I don't even know how they got 56.
Ha! I was just sitting here trying to figure out the 56 too! I can't do it.I don't even know how they got 56.
I think you're right, and that would be written as: (((((7+7)/7)+7)*7)-7)Here's what I think they did to get 56. The bold is the step performed to move on...
Step 1: 7+7/7+7*7-7
Step 2: 14/7+7*7-7
Step 3: 2+7*7-7
Step 4: 9*7-7
Step 5: 63 - 7 = 56
When did FB create this feature where you don't even need to think of a comment to write anymore, you just dump a cute but ambiguous emoticon onto someone's post? #idiocracy #thanksfornothingzuckerberg
It always cracks me up when I use the translate tool.Exactly, I was thinking how godawful it would be if forum posts started reading like that too.
At first I thought, "This is a decent way of communicating across languages since Facebook Translate sucks." Then I got a picture comment that still had a bunch of words in a language I can't read and I gave up on that notion.
It's not just idiots who screw up PEMDAS. My former coworker is brilliant, college valedictorian, and looked at me like I was alien when I told him that the multiplication/division were equal, and are worked in the order they appear.
I just get mad at them for writing it the way they do. Sure there is a order of operations to be followed, but what's wrong with adding parenthesis to remove any possible confusion.It's not just idiots who screw up PEMDAS. My former coworker is brilliant, college valedictorian, and looked at me like I was alien when I told him that the multiplication/division were equal, and are worked in the order they appear.
THIS! I cringe every time I see one of those "Who can get this right or I'm unfriending" PEMDAS tests. Really, just go back to school already if you cannot remember the order of operations. It makes me wonder how these idiots would do with a basic foiling problem.
I just get mad at them for writing it the way they do. Sure there is a order of operations to be followed, but what's wrong with adding parenthesis to remove any possible confusion.It's not just idiots who screw up PEMDAS. My former coworker is brilliant, college valedictorian, and looked at me like I was alien when I told him that the multiplication/division were equal, and are worked in the order they appear.
THIS! I cringe every time I see one of those "Who can get this right or I'm unfriending" PEMDAS tests. Really, just go back to school already if you cannot remember the order of operations. It makes me wonder how these idiots would do with a basic foiling problem.
((3+4)*8)/(5-2)
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