Whats 12.949 rounded to one decimal place

[Clarissaintheway]

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This is just reminded me of the Australian language where they only use compass points to distinguish location - they don't have relative terms like left and right. ourlanguages.org.au/what-we-can-learn-from-the-guugu-yimithirr-language/

They have a constant sense of which way north is, so if you were teaching a class where the pupils face east, you would have to say "raise your north hand" to get them to raise their left hand.

(I'll add the caveat that there is some dispute about whether this is entirely true, but I have read of experiments that show some Australian aborigines grow up with a very well-developed sense of location and orientation).

Thank you Francis

I had to prove the tests for 3 and 11 in my degree entrance interview.
(I also had to explain what happens if you balance a ruler by a finger on each end and then gently try to move your fingers in.)

TheRythmlessMan

I was waiting for someone to say that

But the difference is that you write the stem frist for p and b, not the circle first. So anything where you write th ecircle first it is anti-clockwise. So circle for NESW, automatically anti-clockwise.

Maybe we need an extra bit like - c for compass = NESW. Oh wait, C is written anti-clockwise too

Steppe how about b for biscuit, which is round like the circle you go round in for NESW.

you do the stem first - line top to bottom, then round.
NOT circle first.

For all the letters where you start with the circle first, it is anti-clockwise, the ones where you go clockwise ALL start with the stem first.

So if you put pen to paper to START with a circle, you start by going anti-clockwise

Yes I got that.

I was only suggesting a (complicated!) mnemonic for you to remember to go clockwise when thinking NESW

Oh!!
apologies.

I have read of experiments that show some Australian aborigines grow up with a very well-developed sense of location and orientation).

I'm sure it would be very possible to have a good sense of orientation if you're somewhere that's rarely cloudy and you're not in buildings or dense forest. And not too close to the equator.

This is the weirdest thread I've ever started

As you were

TeenTimesTwo

Oxford?

C is written anti-clockwise too

Sick f***r

I happen to know that T2 did not go to Oxford^.

How very dare you?

I meant T^3. Didn't mean to imply she's two-dimensional.

She's not cubed either!

She's not cubed either!
Indeed, what are you thinking of, D^3 ...surely Teen*2 (or Teenx2 or just Teen2)

I used to date a lady who was into fractions...

she was always trying to get one over me!

Did I mention that she was also afraid if negative numbers?

She'd stop at nothing to avoid them!

Torn

There are negative numbers?

,whimpers.

Yes - that's something for you to take away and ponder!

• not ,whimpers.

Have no idea what happened there - weak arthritic fingers, I expect - no pressure eon keys . . .

Eon energy

Is it best not to mention imaginary numbers?