Correct answer?

[whereisgibson]

lol I know how to do this but skipped a five in haste <- works in a bank. We're all doomed.

 

[Dave Docwra]

Just bear in mind all those mocking the system...You wouldn't be posting here on an international Landcruiser forum (or any other internet base messaging application) without the BODMAS rule. it is simply the recognized methodology for determining system, setup!!!

Mocking How do you work that out, All what we have today did not start when schools & programmers changed to BODMAS, I have certainly never even heard of BODMAS until after my Daughter attended a teachers training course & posed the calculation to me, She has an A level in maths & apparently she also got the answer wrong along with many mature teachers on the course, I (in the sixties) as many others were taught using the same techniques as Blackberry still use today.

Confused as always
Dave.

 

[Lorin]

For those who really want to get into the thick of it It would appear that BODMAS is by no means without it's issues....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AOrder_of_operations

 

[chadr]

IMHO it's all about brackets - the explicit ones and the implicit ones. Get that right and you'll have the correct answer.

 

[Dave Docwra]

For those who really want to get into the thick of it It would appear that BODMAS is by no means without it's issues....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AOrder_of_operations

That makes more sense..

Dave.