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-7 - 6 * -5 * -4 * -3 * -2 * -1 * 0 * 1 * (2 * 3 * 4 + 5 * 6 * 7 ) = ?


Would you phail?

Would you phail?

Would you parse?

in before order of operations

801?

I just ignored all the bits I didn't understand :p

-7, or he's missing an asterix.

-7, or he's missing an asterix.

Yeah, I miss that too. Also Tintin.

(Guessing that the lack of a space between negative sign and digits means a negative value, answer is -7)

0

You multiply 0 with a bunch of numbers?
You think we're some kind of idiots?

It's 71 right?

-7 - 6 * -5 * -4 * -3 * -2 * -1 * 0 * 1 * (2 * 3 * 4 + 5 * 6 * 7 ) = -7 - 0 = -7.

Parentheses are done first, multiplication is done before subtraction or addition. Multiplication with zero yields zero, leaving -7 - 0.

Wut?

-7 - 6 * -5 * -4 * -3 * -2 * -1 * 0 * 1 * (2 * 3 * 4 + 5 * 6 * 7 ) = -7 - 0 = -7.

Parentheses are done first, multiplication is done before subtraction or addition. Multiplication with zero yields zero, leaving -7 - 0.

See, Fass says I'm right.

See, Fass says I'm right.

Although you don't know how to spell asterisk.

"in before order of operations" > "Parentheses are done first, multiplication is done before subtraction or addition."

Dinaverg with first right answer.

Nobel Hobos with best pedantry. Well, yet anyway :p

in before order of operations

In after.

-7, boring. Give me some real maths, at the very least some sort of algebraic problem.

Although you don't know how to spell asterisk.

Did you just get up or something?

I've seen you come second before ... but TWICE in quick succession ? :p

Nobel Hobos with best pedantry.

Also with quickest edit of wrong answer. I saw you answer 0...

I don't follow your puny PEMDAS, I use my own system.

The answer is five, assuming you distribute in a random manner.

integrate 1/cabin

Also with quickest edit of wrong answer. I saw you answer 0...

THREE times !

(You should have hit quote ...)

Just to add some interest to a thread which is dying fast, let's try to guess who that poster WAS.

I note they posted a few times this year in Technical. Before that, nothing for a while.

Anyone ?

integrate 1/cabin

Surely somebody will get this terrible joke.

THREE times !

(You should have hit quote ...)

Why would I quote your wrong answer when the right one you subsequently copied was already furnished? At least I supplied a short explanation.

integrate 1/cabin

ln(|cabin|) :confused:

Like, I just found out - but apparently it's quite old.

Just open a new notepad file, write 'bush hid the facts' (without the quotes) and save that with any name you desire. Upon opening the newly created file, omg win xp bug!


For those of you who don't know it, apparently by typing some string of words of 4 - 3 - 3 - 5 characters it'll give you some error, mainly because when you save the file, you'll save it as ansii character, and when you open the file, you open with the standard unicode char set
.

I didn't know this. Anyone with Windows that can confirm ?

Why would I quote your wrong answer when the right one you subsequently copied was already furnished? At least I supplied a short explanation.

Unfounded assertion. Have some coffee. :)

ln(|cabin|) :confused:

ln(|cabin|) + c, where c is a constant.

ln(|cabin|) + c, where c is a constant.

It's implied, as always.

Unfounded assertion.

Not when the wrong answer without explanation of the calculation is changed after the right answer is given.

It's implied, as always.

Never mind then :)

Not when the wrong answer without explanation of the calculation is changed after the right answer is given.

Unprovable assertion then. And ... changed AFTER ?

Log cabin. Nice natural logs.

Although you don't know how to spell asterisk.

K'pff. The comic is better anyways.

Just to add some interest to a thread which is dying fast, let's try to guess who that poster WAS.

I note they posted a few times this year in Technical. Before that, nothing for a while.

Anyone ?

I am sorry, if you have 5k posts should I know you?


The purpose of this thread is not about math, but about perception sense. It is not about some serious math function, and I've posted it with the true belief that I'll share some easy topic to digest other than the usual politics. If you think that I've failed, sorry for you. Carry on.

Unprovable assertion then.

And limes never allows us to get to zero, but it does allow us to get infinitely close to it.

And ... changed AFTER ?

Today 6:23 PM Dinaverg
Today 6:27 PM Nobel Hobos
Last edited by Nobel Hobos : Today at 6:30 PM.

Dinaverg gave the right answer. You gave a wrong answer after him. Then you copied Dinaverg's answer.

ln(|cabin|) :confused:

Right, now how would you say it if you were saying it out loud in english?

In English, ln is most commonly pronounced as log (rather than log e or natural log since it's shorter) so you say 'log cabin', yeah yeah bad joke and all that but whatever

Right, now how would you say it if you were saying it out loud in english?

In English, ln is most commonly pronounced as log (rather than log e or natural log since it's shorter) so you say 'log cabin', yeah yeah bad joke and all that but whatever

Natural log of the absolute value of cabin? plus, y'know, c

K'pff. The comic is better anyways.

I loved Tintin as a kid, too. More re-readable, because of the draughtsmanship.

Of course, now that I know that he's a hideous racist (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6294670.stm) ...

oh, growing up ... :(

Right, now how would you say it if you were saying it out loud in english?

Natural logarithm of the modulus of cabin.

Natural log of the absolute value of cabin? plus, y'know, c

:p

Actually the joke was supposed to go

integrate 1/cabin

log cabin

No it's a house boat. You forgot to add c!

Natural log of the absolute value of cabin? plus, y'know, c

Now I get it!

integrate 1/cabin

Houseboat!

(log cabin plus sea, of course)

Moar maths puzzles! (damn I feel nerdy)

And limes never allows us to get to zero, but it does allow us to get infinitely close to it.



Today 6:23 PM Dinaverg
Today 6:27 PM Nobel Hobos
Last edited by Nobel Hobos : Today at 6:30 PM.

Dinaverg gave the right answer. You gave a wrong answer after him. Then you copied Dinaverg's answer.

My first post was AFTER Dinaverg's, and it QUOTED him. It was only the Asterix joke.

THEN I edited it, to put a calculation of my answer in (still within the grace period for showing "Edited"). I did it in a hurry, to avoid the "Edited at" message showing. It's ugly.

THEN you saw it, with the wrong answer 0 (I believe that, though you can't prove it.) If you'd quoted it then, you would have had a post time before my edit time, and a strong case. (Actually, you don't need one: I admit my first answer was 0 and I edited that to -7)

THEN I edited it again, to correct it.

Your assertion that I copied Dinaverg's answer is wrong. I checked it over and found my own mistake. As far as I am aware, I did not do that to make my answer comply with Dinaverg's, but in the normal course of what smartasses do, check their own work before someone else can correct them.

If you don't believe me, fine. I have told no lie in this thread.

And the Tintin joke was good, and it was quick for a guy who has been up for twenty hours and has half a bottle or rum in him. If you can't get any pleasure out of my good-natured teasing, ignore me. :)

If you can't get any pleasure out of my good-natured teasing, ignore me. :)

Duly.

AHHHHHH!!!! MATH!!!


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Ok fine I'll provide another one, I saw this on another thread:

What did the mathematician say after his dinner? sqrt(-1/69)

I am sorry, if you have 5k posts should I know you?

Hint huh?

You have more than 5k, and are a more senior poster. If I'm taking that right.

I reckon HotRodia.

The purpose of this thread is not about math, but about perception sense. It is not about some serious math function, and I've posted it with the true belief that I'll share some easy topic to digest other than the usual politics. If you think that I've failed, sorry for you. Carry on.

Not a bit, your thread is worthy.

There's nothing like insulting the intelligence of the NSG Maths crew with some puerile arithmetic to get 'em all going. :D

Come back tomorrow, they'll be having a crack at squaring the 11-dimensional circumference of spacetime. :fluffle:

Ok fine I'll provide another one, I saw this on another thread:

What did the mathematician say after his dinner? sqrt(-1/69)

sqrt(69)/69*i?

You might have been going for sqrt(-1/64)... 1/8*i, i over eight.

Ok fine I'll provide another one, I saw this on another thread:

What did the mathematician say after his dinner? sqrt(-1/69)

sqrt(69)/69*i?

You might have been going for sqrt(-1/64)... 1/8*i, i over eight.

Oooh, that makes more sense. I was looking for some sort of sexual reference...

sqrt(69)/69*i?

You might have been going for sqrt(-1/64)... 1/8*i, i over eight.

Whoops, yeah you're right, Freudian slip I guess :p

Although you don't know how to spell asterisk.

He was referring to the French cartoon character, who is also missing from this expression.

integrate 1/cabin

Houseboat, of course. ;)

Negative seven. Zero factor is kind of hard to spot on a cursory look... Sigh......

EDIT: So an infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar...

homework?

Oh! You mean 'maths'...

Oooh, that makes more sense. I was looking for some sort of sexual reference...

Those dirty mathematicians.

So an infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar...

You'd think one of them would have seen it.

Yes i'd fail that, well if you mean by the mathmatical ability however if by phail you mean actually getting the right answer then i've parsed.
So in all probability i've failed.