Math Problem

[Craig]

Originally Posted by Yadkin

I only took seven semesters to pass four in calculus.

And in my career, I never used it once. I don’t honestly think it’s ever used, it’s just mathematical masterbation.

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by Craig

And in my career, I never used it once. I don’t honestly think it’s ever used, it’s just mathematical masterbation.

I said goodbye to it three seconds after my last final. When used in my engineering courses, I skipped those problems or figured out another way to do them. Of all the engineers that I have known in my 40 year career, only one ever used it, and he was Chinese -American.

[BayouCountry]

The conclusion I get from this discussion is the person who writes an equation in this manner is most likely a woman. To no avail , I keep telling my daughter to be specific.

As a programmer, I would never leave my code to interpretation; parentheses is your friend. And yes, I commented my code (MSSQL interfaces) very well even though it was clean and self explanatory. I received only one call after retiring which had to do with Active Directory changes breaking permissions.

I stand by my answer of 4. lol

Excellent post, Dude.

[Mick]

Originally Posted by Craig

And in my career, I never used it once. I don’t honestly think it’s ever used, it’s just mathematical masterbation.

Totally wrong. When I worked as a Chemical Engineer, I used calculus regularly. There were those who tried to avoid it, and they were considered dumbasses.

[Craig]

Originally Posted by Mick

Totally wrong. When I worked as a Chemical Engineer, I used calculus regularly. There were those who tried to avoid it, and they were considered dumbasses.

I didn’t avoid it, it was just never necessary.

[Raazor]

Equation is ****ed up... however, ChatGPT and Bing disagree

ChatGPT sez:

The expression 60 / 5(1 + 1(1 + 1)) can be simplified as follows:

First, evaluate the expression inside the innermost parentheses:

(1 + 1(1 + 1) = 1 + 1 \cdot 2 = 3).
Next, multiply the result by 5:

(5 \cdot 3 = 15).
Finally, divide 60 by the product:

(60 / 15 = 4).
Therefore, the answer to the expression is 4.


Bing sez:

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by Craig

I didn’t avoid it, it was just never necessary.

It was unnecessary and I avoided it. According to some, that makes me a dumbass.

[Mick]

Originally Posted by Craig

I didn’t avoid it, it was just never necessary.

Maybe for you, but this part of your statement:

Originally Posted by Craig

And in my career, I never used it once. I don’t honestly think it’s ever used, it’s just mathematical masterbation.

Is totally wrong; and an inability to spell "masturbation" correctly doesn't help your case.

[The_Dude]

Originally Posted by Raazor

Equation is ****ed up... however, ChatGPT and Bing disagree

ChatGPT sez:

The expression 60 / 5(1 + 1(1 + 1)) can be simplified as follows:

First, evaluate the expression inside the innermost parentheses:

(1 + 1(1 + 1) = 1 + 1 \cdot 2 = 3).
Next, multiply the result by 5:

(5 \cdot 3 = 15).
Finally, divide 60 by the product:

(60 / 15 = 4).
Therefore, the answer to the expression is 4.


Bing sez:

After I argued with ChatGPT for a bit, it came up with the correct answer.

[Yadkin]

Apparently computer software writers are dumbasses.

[Craig]

Originally Posted by Mick

Maybe for you, but this part of your statement:



Is totally wrong; and an inability to spell "masturbation" correctly doesn't help your case.

Congrats! Yer awesome!

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by Craig

Congrats! Yer awesome!

[86RAG]

Originally Posted by Raazor

Equation is ****ed up... however, ChatGPT and Bing disagree

ChatGPT sez:

The expression 60 / 5(1 + 1(1 + 1)) can be simplified as follows:

First, evaluate the expression inside the innermost parentheses:

(1 + 1(1 + 1) = 1 + 1 \cdot 2 = 3).
Next, multiply the result by 5:

(5 \cdot 3 = 15).
Finally, divide 60 by the product:

(60 / 15 = 4).
Therefore, the answer to the expression is 4.


Bing sez:

Looks like Bing manipulated the equation by putting parenthesis around 60/5 in its calculation

[Mick]

Originally Posted by Craig

Congrats! Yer awesome!

Not really, I just paid attention in High School.

[Raazor]

Originally Posted by Mick

Not really, I just paid attention in High School.

*cough* sixer *cough*

[The_Dude]

Originally Posted by 86RAG

Looks like Bing manipulated the equation by putting parenthesis around 60/5 in its calculation

Multiplication and division should be evaluated from left to right

[Unsuspicious]

If this was written on paper using a dividing line then there would be no ambiguity which is numerator and denominator.
When using computer text, any expression meant to be the whole denominator will get parenthesis to make it clear.
a/xy is never interpreted as a/(xy) as that is a completely different expression
a/(xy) is not equal to a/x(y) which is the mistake people with boners for the P make

[Mick]

Originally Posted by Raazor

*cough* sixer *cough*

See post #29 Mr. Late-to-the-Party.

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by Unsuspicious

If this was written on paper using a dividing line then there would be no ambiguity which is numerator and denominator.
When using computer text, any expression meant to be the whole denominator will get parenthesis to make it clear.
a/xy is never interpreted as a/(xy) as that is a completely different expression
a/(xy) is not equal to a/x(y) which is the mistake people with boners for the P make

Boners.

[Raazor]

Originally Posted by The_Dude

Multiplication and division should be evaluated from left to right

this is what generally trips up those never made it past the 5th grade

MD & AS are equal.