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falling
on March 30, 2012
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3 caculators = 3 different answers to one math pro...
that seems wrong to me too, either I lost my math or I don’t see how he went from
6 ÷ 2 (1 + 2)
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(6 * (1 + 2)) / 2
jonsen
on March 30, 2012
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You may reorder factors arbitrarily
*a /b *c = *a *b /c = /c *b *a etc. so 6 /2 *(...) = 6 *(...) /2.
falling
on March 30, 2012
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Right. Silly me. What a weird way of doing it though.
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