On 9 April 2013 08:59, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > I suspect the parenthesis were dropped on the Facebook problems to create > "gotcha" posts. I too was accustomed to parenthetically ordered operations. I > did remember that calculations must be performed in an order that's not > linear, and that multiplication and division take precedence, but the post > was meant to embarrass the unthinking masses rather than accurately test math > skills. OK, in my school day (only around 30 years ago) parenthesis in math were only applied in the case where the operational order would otherwise have been ambiguous, for instance in the case where an exponent was the function of a lower order operation etc. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
