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Off Topic / Re: the math apocalypse: 48÷2(9+3) = ?

« on: September 20, 2014, 04:37:43 PM »

There isn't though. Googling "left-to-right addition" returns thousands of extremely useful tutorials and informational pages. Googling "left-to-right multiplication" results in a few obscure teaching plans and online tutorials, and in the top 10 results is the Berkeley publication I quoted. While you may have been taught that you multiply left-to-right in school, there's literally no official way to do it. It's entirely ambiguous because the problem stems from the persons failure to clarify what they wanted when they asked you that question. It's not incorrect to write "five over the quantity 2b" as 5/2b, and it's not incorrect to write "five halves times b" as 5/2b.

There doesn't need to be a tutorial, you just do it left to right. "No official way to do it" is ridiculous. Just because the mathematicians of the world haven't got together and decided something doesn't mean that there isn't already a widely used convention. Left-to-right is probably the most intuitive thing to do, as well as the way any computer will tell you to do it. I mean, the convention is easy to learn anyway, and all of our machines already do it, so why people are arguing against it is beyond me.

Also, 5/2b is not a correct way to write "5 over the quantity 2b."

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Off Topic / Re: the math apocalypse: 48÷2(9+3) = ?

« on: September 20, 2014, 03:24:32 PM »

Yeah. I'm saying that there is a left-to-right rule for multiplication and division. He claims that there isn't.

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Off Topic / Re: the math apocalypse: 48÷2(9+3) = ?

« on: September 20, 2014, 01:52:39 PM »

http://math.berkeley.edu/~gbergman/misc/numbers/ord_ops.html

That professor is just wrong though. The professor makes the claim that there is no convention, therefore the question is ambiguous. The professor states that there is likely no convention because one does not often get long linear multiplication-division problems.

The fact that every single calculator that knows order of operations will solve the problem as 288 indicates that there is, indeed, a convention.

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Games / Re: Super Smash Bros. For Wii U & 3DS: 3DS Demo released in NA/EU!

« on: September 20, 2014, 11:54:43 AM »

I'm thinking I'll want a Wii U bundle with Super Smash Brothers. I guess I'll have to wait.

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Off Topic / Re: the math apocalypse: 48÷2(9+3) = ?

« on: September 20, 2014, 11:19:36 AM »

thanks for reviving something solved 11 pages ago

Umm it was on page 1 -_-

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Off Topic / Re: the math apocalypse: 48÷2(9+3) = ?

« on: September 20, 2014, 11:16:07 AM »

48÷2(9+3)
48÷2(9)+3
48÷18+3
8/3+3
17/3

Duh

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Off Topic / Re: Tumblr Megathread - ˙ ͜>˙ is the new meme

« on: September 19, 2014, 08:07:39 PM »

It's my house, get the forget out if you don't like what I'm doing.

A sign saying exactly this would probably ward the people off who are concerned.

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Off Topic / Re: Tumblr Megathread - ˙ ͜>˙ is the new meme

« on: September 19, 2014, 07:14:56 PM »

This is because of general safety concerns, not PTSD.

Yeah, but if you have PTSD you can still look at the zones.

Let me just go to every house in a 1 Mile+ radius of where i will be doing fireworks and tell everyone i am doing fireworks.

Okay, fireworks was a bad brown townogy. Putting warnings on your blog is the equivalent of a single sign outside of your house.

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Off Topic / Re: Tumblr Megathread - ˙ ͜>˙ is the new meme

« on: September 19, 2014, 01:44:13 PM »

Imagine a soldier with PTSD. One thing that triggers their PTSD is fireworks. No one is going to ban all fireworks, but there are areas where fireworks are legal and illegal. These areas are well defined by laws, which allows people who are triggered by fireworks to avoid them.

There is no serious movement to stop all fireworks, but please be courteous and let people know when you are going to set them off.

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Gallery / Re: [H] Misty Shoal [WIP] update #1

« on: September 19, 2014, 01:31:47 PM »

who made the boat

Me, with some detailing and stuff by Wehr.

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Off Topic / Re: (no hate replies please) i have a crush on my straight friend

« on: September 18, 2014, 07:35:31 PM »

As in desiring this person.
Like in my case, I would admire the curve of his bicep, the way his chest fills out his shirt, or even how cute his butt is. I'm not undressing him per se, but it is beyond appreciating his dedication to his looks.

Okay, I figured as much. Thanks.

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Off Topic / Re: is it ethical to give someone an artificial friend

« on: September 18, 2014, 07:34:36 PM »

The AI having the revelation that it's an AI, the person the AI is friends with knowing it's an AI friend and knowing they were given this friend because no one else found them desirable, etc...

That's like saying it is unethical to set up your kids with a playdate because they aren't making friends at school, because they might eventually realize that the only reason they have that friend is because they couldn't make any others.

Realizing you only have a friend because your parents were concerned is better than not having a friend.

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Off Topic / Re: is it ethical to give someone an artificial friend

« on: September 18, 2014, 07:30:15 PM »

Why would it not be?

EDIT: I feel like the unethical part would be forcing a sentient(?) being to be friends with someone.

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Off Topic / Re: Local man on FBI top ten most wanted list

« on: September 18, 2014, 07:28:42 PM »

or if spotted on the side of the road just him with a car yo.

That could be really bad in the case of misidentification.

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Off Topic / Re: (no hate replies please) i have a crush on my straight friend

« on: September 18, 2014, 07:27:26 PM »

No. I haven't said anything; and I kind of blew up on Judge... I think Planr is wrong, but I have already made my case.

Planr, I just want to ask: Do you think homoloveuality itself is sinful or is acting on it the sinful part? I can understand the latter, but I can't understand that thinking of someone as attractive as being sinful.

You can find someone of the same love attractive without being homoloveual. I am pretty sure you didn't mean it like I am understanding it though. Can you clarify?