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Old 11-09-2011, 09:46 AM  
Jel
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Originally Posted by Si View Post
Jel you're doing it wrong mate. a Scientific Calculator should do the maths in BODMAS. You apparently wasn't taught that in school. I was and I'm from the UK aswell.

If you don't have an order the answer is 1.

If you use BODMAS it is 41.
See, the answer is always 41 though isn't it, and never 1. Like you say, a scientific calc gives 41, whereas a normal calc (like the one in start > programs > accessories) gives 1, even though that is obviously (I now know) wrong.

Waiting until my maths teacher mate gets home so I can give him shit about the state of our education :D
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