If you have two (x) tenner's that’s twenty quid, so if your lass gives you another (+) tenner that’s thirty quid and not the forty quid it would be calculating from left to right Roger. 10 + 10 x 2 That's why my missus slips me the odd tenner because she thinks I am always hard up
You’ve underlined something and asked a question that I honestly don’t understand the relevance of. Is it a criticism or an observation or both?
Short answer is I don’t know. I just worked it out using the mathematical conventions that I was taught as a young lad.
wrong mate your example quotes i have 2 x10s that's 20 quid my lass gives me another + 10 as per your example i now have 30 quid if she x it you have 40 you could not build an improvised bridge to take x amount of tonnage using that form of calculation 2 tenners + is the same as 2 tenners x and plus ten as in your is 30
Simple answer is that mathematically they aren't needed. I suspect that @Evil Jimmy Krankie, like me was taught that adding the brackets helps you to identify the separate parts of a sum. They also make it easier to show your working out for a teacher doing the marking.
This place used to be good and very funny now it just seems I’m back at fecking school in a maths lesson. Can we not just get back to what the OP made it for
I started a business selling cockles, mussels & whelks, bought all the available catch ... .... to be honest it was shellfish
No Roger, you are wrong. I tried to explain it as simply as possible. If you want to calculate 10 + 10 x 2 from left to right you would need to write the equation (10 + 10) x 2, but in the absence of brackets BODMAS applies. I charge £40 per hour for lessons so it's probably cheaper just to Google BODMAS
You’re no doubt right Roger but we’re talking counting chickens eggs and bananas mate. Anyway, the chickens could try and fly, the eggs could float across (if the bridge was over water; if not then **** em) and you could chuck the bananas, that’s assuming of course they don’t return as they are a similar shape to the traditional image of a boomerang which is noted for returning.
So (10+10)*2 needs brackets. 10+(10*2) doesn’t need brackets. Maths used to be a much more rigorous discipline when I studied it. This is just pandering to laziness. Anyway. Thanks for teaching me the meaning of plethora. It means a lot.