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Author Topic: Things that made you sad today thread.  (Read 9446524 times)

quinnr

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #35055 on: August 13, 2011, 02:23:11 am »
So I got the farthest and best character I've ever had in Nethack, right? I was actually hoping I'd win this time.

Of course, I mostly expected to die in some stupid way...
but instead I get an error about being unable to uncompress the file.

The dreaded system error is the worst enemy.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #35056 on: August 13, 2011, 03:22:02 am »
Had to explain to my sister that

2x^2=2*x^2 NOT 4x^2
AND
(2x^2)*(2x^2)=4x^2

Kids these days...  :-\
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #35057 on: August 13, 2011, 03:42:15 am »
Quote from: Gamerlord on August 13, 2011, 03:22:02 am
Had to explain to my sister that

2x2=2*x2 NOT 4x2
AND
(2x2)*(2x2)=4x2

Kids these days...  :-\

The problem is that they don't put enough emphasis on order of operations anymore, as part of the "intuitive" style of math instruction.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #35058 on: August 13, 2011, 03:43:33 am »
I finished Stick RPG 2 in one day... Now I feel REALLY sorry for those who wasted their cash on it.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #35059 on: August 13, 2011, 04:10:38 am »
Oh, tech issues, y u no leave me alone?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #35060 on: August 13, 2011, 04:16:19 am »
Sadness and thoughts of death never go well together. Sadness sucks.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #35061 on: August 13, 2011, 10:10:14 am »
Quote from: Lord Shonus on August 13, 2011, 03:42:15 am
Quote from: Gamerlord on August 13, 2011, 03:22:02 am
Had to explain to my sister that

2x2=2*x2 NOT 4x2
AND
(2x2)*(2x2)=4x2

Kids these days...  :-\

The problem is that they don't put enough emphasis on order of operations anymore, as part of the "intuitive" style of math instruction.
They did when I was taught. Although I did go to an alternative school...
I was taught PEMDAS: Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction.
Now they have GEMS, I can't remember what the G stands for, but they condensed Multiplication and division into one step, and did the same with Subtraction and addition.
The only problem is, if you've got 5-2+3, how do you know which one to do first? If you do it one way, it's 6, if you do it the other way it's 0. Technically, according to PEMDAS, 0 is correct. However, according to GEMS, either one could be correct because it doesn't tell you which order to do them in, just that you do them after everything else, and if you want to get really technical, you can say that since subtraction is listed first, it's 6.
I don't know, I think the old way was better.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #35062 on: August 13, 2011, 10:13:47 am »
Quote from: Taco Dan on August 13, 2011, 10:10:14 am
Quote from: Lord Shonus on August 13, 2011, 03:42:15 am
Quote from: Gamerlord on August 13, 2011, 03:22:02 am
Had to explain to my sister that

2x2=2*x2 NOT 4x2
AND
(2x2)*(2x2)=4x2

Kids these days...  :-\

The problem is that they don't put enough emphasis on order of operations anymore, as part of the "intuitive" style of math instruction.
They did when I was taught. Although I did go to an alternative school...
I was taught PEMDAS: Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction.
Now they have GEMS, I can't remember what the G stands for, but they condensed Multiplication and division into one step, and did the same with Subtraction and addition.
The only problem is, if you've got 5-2+3, how do you know which one to do first? If you do it one way, it's 6, if you do it the other way it's 0. Technically, according to PEMDAS, 0 is correct. However, according to GEMS, either one could be correct because it doesn't tell you which order to do them in, just that you do them after everything else, and if you want to get really technical, you can say that since subtraction is listed first, it's 6.
I don't know, I think the old way was better.

Wait, I always learned PEMDAS, but that the MD and AS were together, and you do them left to right.
... I really hope I wasn't wrong all this time.  :-X
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #35063 on: August 13, 2011, 10:15:35 am »
5-2=3+3=6. From left to right. That's because PEMDAS is bullshit (edit: okay, maybe not bullshit, but extremely misleading) since multiplication and addition don't have priority before divisions and substractions respectively.

The Germans have the simple to remember phrase "Punkt vor Strich", meaning dots before lines, * and : before + and -.
Quote from: quinnr on August 13, 2011, 10:13:47 am
Wait, I always learned PEMDAS, but that the MD and AS were together, and you do them left to right.
... I really hope I wasn't wrong all this time.  :-X
No, you were quite right about that.
« Last Edit: August 13, 2011, 10:17:24 am by Darvi »
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #35064 on: August 13, 2011, 10:16:26 am »
yeah, addition and subtraction is always done left to right.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #35065 on: August 13, 2011, 10:19:18 am »
God damn it, every time I talk about math here, I'm always wrong. Thanks, alternative school...
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Quote from: Criptfeind on June 06, 2011, 08:27:19 pm
I think I would remember if I had amnesia.
I'd like to remind everyone that half of the time I don't even know what I'm talking about. The other half of the time I only sort of know what I'm talking about.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #35066 on: August 13, 2011, 10:20:48 am »
Alsp, google revealed that G stands for Grouping.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #35067 on: August 13, 2011, 10:35:37 am »
Yeah you do it in the order that you read it basically.  In other news, I am in so... much... pain...
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #35068 on: August 13, 2011, 10:40:45 am »
There's an extreme flood danger here.

river is about 6 inches or so below the top of the dyke.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #35069 on: August 13, 2011, 11:02:14 am »
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