Whats 12.949 rounded to one decimal place

[Clarissaintheway]

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Clockwise?????

Is that the same as widdershins?

Jesus fucking Christ.

I would like to commend everyone involved in this thread for the fantastic group effort. How the fuck can a thread about basic rounding last for eleven fucking pages. This is why the Germans are laughing at us and our lack of engineering graduates.

I also have a similar issue with 'never eat shredded wheat

I have a black hole in my brain where mnemonics go to die. I have no problem remembering the detail but trying to remember the rhyme is impossible.

Probably best schadenfreude doesn't try thinking about the various Right Hand and Left Hand rules...

OMG my husband can’t do the left hand L thing either errol. He says he’s dyslexic, I think he just has no common sense.

“Put your hand down on the table, and the one that makes an L between your index finger and thumb is your left hand”.

So he puts his hands down upside down, or palm up, basically every way except the obvious way that normal people put their hands down on tables!

My favourite "cheat" method is for the 9 times table! (you only have to learn 11 and 12)
I'll just link to youtube because I'm awful at explaining it without hands to show people!

(bit long- you don't need to watch all of it to get the idea!)

There are 10 types of people in this world ….

(end of joke left as an exercise for the reader).

.... those who can read binary code and those who can't?

I like this one too:
There are 2 types of people in this world:

1. those who can extrapolate from incomplete data

Binary is one thing I CAN do!
And rounding thank goodness.

But otherwise am instinctively anti-clockwise (I like the WE across the middle of the cardinal points). And DH knows to trust my gesturing hand when I'm navigating, rather than my spoken directions! We have "My left or your left?" conversations rather too often.

As an experiment I just put my hands on the table.
Left hand: palm down
Right hand: palm up
I have no problem with L and R but mnemonics of any sort are useless to me (as are any sort of acronym, which for a while made working in education pretty difficult. The one I have most issue with is SMART, as in targets).

How the fuck can a thread about basic rounding last for eleven fucking pages.

11.8 pages

Thumb - huh, I was just coming on to make that very joke having seen T^3's version. It's fun saying that one out loud and getting the intonation right at the end.

You can also figure out any number that's divisible by 3 if all the digits add up to 3.

E.g.
16896:
1+6+8+9+6= 30, which is divisible by 3.

If something costs £1.49 and I asked you which whole pound it was closest too, you'd say £1 because it is 49p away from £1 and 51p away from £2.

You wouldnt said it's closer to £2 because it rounds from £1.49 up to £1.50 which then is rounds to £2. That's wrong. The last digit has nothing do do with it. The only digit that matters is the digit directly to the right of the whole pound number.

It doesn't matter if you're rounding to a while number or a decimal place; whichever place to are rounding to, the only number that has any effect is the one directly to the right.

So, round £1.49 to the nearest pound. That becomes £1 because you only look at the 4 directly to the right of your rounding point. You'd never go all the way to the end, in this case 9, and round the 4 to a 5 and then round the £1 to £2. It doesn't work like that.

If you went into a shop and offered £1 for something that cost £1.49, I doubt you'd walk away from the shop with the item.

Same trick works for testing divisibility by 9. (And divisibility by 1 ).

If you went into a shop and offered £1 for something that cost £1.49, I doubt you'd walk away from the shop with the item.

What does that have to do with rounding?!

If something costs £1.49 and I asked you which whole pound it was closest too, you'd say £1 because it is 49p away from £1 and 51p away from £2

You wouldnt said it's closer to £2 because it rounds from £1.49 up to £1.50 which then is rounds to £2.

BLOODY HELL!

I understand this now! Thank you, anonymous benefactor

This is incorrect...

Anything that currently costs £1.49 will be rounded up to £2.00 after Brexit!

There's maths, and there's economics!

and then politics

Walking widdershins around a church is very very unlucky!

What about if the church is in the southern hemisphere?

When I went to New Zealand I was very disconcerted that the sun went in an anticlockwise direction through the day, and shadows shortened and lengthened in the "wrong" direction.
I knew this would be the case, but I found it hard to cope with.

I would be very disconcerted if the sun orbited us at all!

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