Whats even more sad is that the number of votes for 2 exponentially increased, even after all the explanations. Unreal.
I'll tell you what's REALLY sad and much more pertinent to most of us. When I have to look at someone's dumb expression as I give them $21.00 for my $10.89 purchase so that I can get back a 10 and change. Inevitably, they will give me back the dollar i gave them or have to rely on their point-of-sale system to tell them how much change to give. Or when I was a waiter and another waiter would ask me to tell them how much change to give back in the same situation.
Let the ****storm begin once again. Now that is messed up did Texas instruments change it's program or something from 85 to 86
someone decided that it was fun to do it on another houston forum after they saw this thread. I haven't went through all the pages but this should end the thread. Also that ti-85 is so old, it probably didn't have the correct PEMDAS on it
This was posted pages ago. If that's what the TI-85 gives, then it's wrong. Just like Apple's calculator widget was wrong at one point doing PEMDAS. They then fixed it (and I think broke it again later...).
So a Mac/Linux OS calculator gives you a 2, and a Microsoft OS calculator gives you 288. I've always found Mac/Linux to be a more stable and reliable platform.
Except... Apple saw it was giving an incorrect answer and corrected it later. Then they broke it again. Ha! 288 for LIFE!
You have to enter the select statement as : select 48/2*(9+3) Then BANG F5 AND APPRECIATE 288 IN ALL ITS CORRECT GLORY!!!!
When I look at: 48/2*(9+3) Without PEMDAS, I see 48 / 48 over and thus, 48 -------------------------- 2*(9+3) It doesn't make sense to write out: 48 & a * (9+3) ---- 2 Let's say it was (9+3)*48/2, or 48*(9+3)/2 Then the answer would be 288. The placement of the (9+3), and whether it is before or after the line matters. And resorting to calling others r****ded over this is silly. People learn it different ways. I think the worst are the ones that heavily rely on Google, Excel, and other software to find the answer. I know it hurts some of you when I say this, but Google isn't a genius and it can be wrong in a lot of things. We as humans have to be smart enough to distinguish machine erred calculations, results, and even suggestions.
Let's say I want to translate this to one line: 48 -------------------------- 2(9+3) I would write: 48/2(9+3) And that is still the same thing whether you like it or not. I enjoyed Pete Chilcutt's sarcastic remark. The rest of this thread (from what I read) sucked.
