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-4^2
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Artis Leon Ivey Jr
, Feb 20 2009 06:55 PM
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 06:55 PM
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 06:56 PM
I am watching very closely.
Don't screw it up this time.
Don't screw it up this time.
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 06:59 PM
please real vote, and if you don't want to vote for I DON'T KNOW btw.
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 07:00 PM
this is middle school shit
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 07:02 PM
this is middle school shit
last time this topic came around it was a 50/50 split and one of the people fervently arguing the wrong side is at Harvard now on a scholarship. there's something MORE to this than math and I hope this poll helps figure out what it is.
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 07:04 PM
what??? who??last time this topic came around it was a 50/50 split and one of the people fervently arguing the wrong side is at Harvard now on a scholarship. there's something MORE to this than math and I hope this poll helps figure out what it is.
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 07:05 PM
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 07:09 PM
it's probably just people who see -4 as a single number and not -1*4. After that you just got order of operations which maybe people don't know?
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 07:10 PM
yeah some people just imagine parentheses in their head
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 07:12 PM
Yeah, it's clearly -16. It would be 16 if the question was (-4)^2.
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 07:16 PM
nope I can't get -16 any way I do it. have not done maths for 2 years though so!
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 07:17 PM
nope I can't get -16 any way I do it. fuck you maths teachers.
type it into google.
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 07:18 PM
hahahahaha
I have never thought of it that way but that makes a lot more sense.
I have never thought of it that way but that makes a lot more sense.
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 07:19 PM
no option to remove vote?? lol
oh well
oh well
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 07:19 PM
yeah that does not give any explanation nice try.
It really does.
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 07:20 PM
yeah that does not give any explanation nice try.
it shows you order of operations pretty explicitly. the negative is outside, meaning its multiplication, meaning you do the exponent first.
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 07:20 PM
nice try i know your edit tricks by now...
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 07:21 PM
too quick bros
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Posted 20 February 2009 - 07:21 PM
....ffffffffffffffYeah, it's clearly -16. It would be 16 if the question was (-4)^2.
Oh well, I screwed up.
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