40+40x0+1 ?

[minimuffy]

40 + 40 x 0 + 1 =

A- 1
B- 41
c- 0

I say its B-41 as you need to multiply then add. (from what i remember of standard grade maths the acroymym BOMDAS- brackets off, multiply, divide, add, subtract)

DH says its 1.

please tell he's wrong!

atyourcervix

It's thanks to maths that mumsnet can exist.

I sincerely hope you are being facetious.

And what was the other thing mentioned? PEDMAS?

what? why? what has maths got to do with anything?

It's 1.

Because 40 + 40 equals 80 which is then multiplied by 0 which isn't possible so you end up with 0 and then +1 gives you the answer of 1

theres a pedmas down the road. i keep the kids away from him.

@ lebof

Brackets
Of
Divide
Multiply
Add
Subtract

The sad thing is maths is so ingrained in my head, I didn't even clock the whole BODMAS thing

Brackets, order (also known as indices) division, multiplication (but it doesnt matter which way round you do those two) addition, subtraction.
If you always stick to that order when looking at a sum (or indeed algebra), it means that everyone gets the same answer :)

I am going for 1

Shite at maths but i do remember the teacher bellowing
Anything times nought is nought at the class for years.

I am a fish.

*Dwarf.

Because computers (and iPhones) use very smart maths to work out how to send and process information.

But really, you do know this, don't you??

Brackets Of Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction

The order in which you solve various bits of an equation, brackets first.

PEMDAS Parentheses Exponents Multiplication Division Addition Subtraction

With Parentheses being brackets and exponents being powers, square root etc.

um. no. how numbers and why not words?

I know it as BIDMAS

It's the order you do things in maths
so you start with anything in brackets
then any Indices
then Division
then Multiplication
then Addition
And finish with Subtraction.

Although I only know this because DS1 explained it to me. He's very clever, I'm not.

its not 'of' its 'order' the bit when you work out indices.

as melody says bodmas=bidmas indices=order not of.

sorry. never knew that was so important to me!

I was taught it as of, but order makes more sense and BIDMAS makes even more sense. PEMDAS also I think more sensible.

erm, were we supposed to have been taught this at school?

This has been doing the rounds on the internet for years and years.

I was taught it at juniors, Mr Nickle.

41

I'm on my phone and feeding DS, so can't go into detail, but at it's most basic level, computers work in binary (1 or 0) so it's all about the numbers.

Strange, like LeBOF, when I first looked at it the numbers around the x looked closer, but I think that's just the type face.

Doing the x first in that sum is right.