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Originally Posted by Minte
If it appears I am being arrogant about a simple math problem it would be because I have done this, in the real world my entire career. Literally I have worked with hundreds of engineers with many fortune 500 companies. So, what you see as arrogance is only life experience. If you go to Martin Marietta for a job and answer the question posed any other way than the way I answered it,you will not get the job. I worked for them right out of school as a data tech and I know that in those years that equation would be considered sloppy and ambiguous. If things have changed in other fields requiring math in 2011 I wouldn't know.
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You're being arrogant because you're insisting that you being an Engineer trumps every other source on Mathematics. It's silly on the face. You've been told, and shown over and over again that the Order of Operations has not changed, it demands that in the absence of brackets multiplication and division be done before addition and substraction
So if your argument is going to hinge entirely on you being an Engineer, and having a degree in Engineering, then by all means please tell us where you got this degree from. We can then see exactly how that school, the one that issued your degree, sees things. Shouldn't that be the absolute authority in your mind?