Anyone up for solving this puzzle?

[summeriscomingsoon]

A gold star for a correct answer



do we know the answer yet lol

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@billybear

do we know the answer yet lol

Yes. It’s 10.

By the way, @ShipOfTheseus, I like your username. Are you the same ShipOfTheseus I've seen on other threads?

@butterpuffed

I kept getting 28 but understand how it's 10 now as I didn't use the brackets correctly !

What's BODMAS ??

There aren’t any brackets, though, so here the B (brackets) in BODMAS is irrelevant. Nor is there an O, or a D. There is an M (multiplication) so that is the first thing you do. Then you do A(addition). There’s no S.

@DadDadDad

By the way, *@ShipOfTheseus*, I like your username. Are you the same ShipOfTheseus I've seen on other threads?

Probably! User names are not doubled up.

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@DadDadDad

By the way, *@ShipOfTheseus*, I like your username. Are you the same ShipOfTheseus I've seen on other threads?

smart question! It took me a second!

@DadDadDad and @Sbk28
Ha! I was slow off the mark there. Well spotted, you two.

@DadDadDad

By the way, *@ShipOfTheseus*, I like your username. Are you the same ShipOfTheseus I've seen on other threads?

Nice personal identity joke there 🤣

Thanks @ShipOfTheseus !

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@StormzyinaTCup

I think the follow on thread to this is:

“teachers excluded, how many people have ever needed to use BODMAS since they left school?”

Pretty much everyone who writes software with any numbers in it.

I write scientific software, there's a few extra operator precedent rules but BODMAS is always part of them.

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10

2 + 1 + (1 x 7) = 10

Pretty much everyone who writes software with any numbers in it
I write scientific software, there's a few extra operator precedent rules but BODMAS is always part of them.

I'm sure there are a few careers out there (other than teachers) that use BODMAS but imagine these are in the minority. Mental note made not to go into scientific software programming, I will stick to accountancy !!

Out of interest when you write software do you put the brackets in or not?

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Ok 13 (looked at clock face)

Haha ok it's 10

It’s hilarious that people are still asking ‘what is BODMAS’ when they could Google it- or even just read the thread!

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@Rufffles

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Arrgghhh! Just noticed clock faces. 10!

how many people have ever needed to use BODMAS since they left school?”

Best real life example ever is the PP @howmanytoes brilliant example counting the money is your purse. Say you find two pound coins and three £10 notes.

2 + 3 * 10

BODMAS tells you to multiply three times £10 before adding £2. But then you knew that anyway, didn't you?

It's how stuff works.