On 9 April 2013 06:30, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > Just out of curiosity, what real life problem does that equation relate to?
In solving electronics engineering problems this sort of combination of operators wouldn't be that uncommon. > It's been long enough since I'd done school-book math that I had to > Google "order of operations" to be sure I got the answer right. After watching that FB thread I feel that I'm in a privileged position that my secondary schooling left me with an indelible memory of order of operations (and we had no swanky acronyms, we just had to remember it like times tables) plus I can solve trig problems so long as I have a table or calculator handy and logs are no mystery. I can't help thinking that if order of operations in second class mechanical maths is a problem what change would anyone have had with basic algebra? -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
