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khnum |
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Have too much time or a junior high math education?
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Mypoody2 |
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SurvivorArctic wrote: No, you just proved that your dumb fucking ass cant do 5th grade math. Congratulations. Although I guess you're not all to blame. They did have lower standards of edjucation in the 40s. |
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Die Apokalyptischen Reiter |
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robplunk |
JT was paying attention to the order of operations | ||
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Who would have thought the redneck was the smartest of the crew left? If you look at his board, he wrote "PEMDAS" in the bottom left corner. Check
it out at 29:27 on the video at CBS.com. So clearly it was not announced that the order of operations did not apply.
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co coach |
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robplunk wrote: stephen turned PEMDAS into a song or numbers in his head or something. |
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trickmind |
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Posts: 1624 (05/09/09 5:55 PM) Dragonslayer |
Only For a Moment wrote: Yeah I was confused by lines as well. Shouldn't it have been brackets? But mathematically if everyone who watched the show is a tool, that also means you are also a tool, since you watched it. |
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gervasemyman |
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Posts: 1405 (05/09/09 11:38 PM) I'm with STUPID! |
This is so dumb. They obviously explained to them to do each equation separately.
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SurvivorArctic |
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you are still an ignorant racist hick in my eyes. That, at least, will never, ever change. oh man. Don't ever change! Oh yeah - I still got the right answer, incorrectly written or not. So I don't see what your beef is. Oh wait - I'm a minority. I almost forgot your loathing of all things NOT white. My bad. |
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Squeekvivor |
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They should have written it like this. It would have taken an hour and a half for someone to get the solution, but it probably still would have been Stephen.
(((((((((6 + 2) / 4) x 3) / 3) - 7) + 6) + 5) / 3) - 1) x 1 = 1 |
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blistering |
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I want to know why they didn't make it clear that it was base 10 math.
With no 8's or 9's it could have easily been base 8 math and I'm a little upset no air time was spent on clarifying that. |
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Someguy826 |
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I remember seeing this and saying "WTF?" too. If they can't remember how to do 7th grade algebra then it's their own fucking problem,
don't insult the actual semi-intelligent people like JT there that know of the order of operations. Instead they just dumb it down for dumb fucks like
Coach and Debbie who can't do math.
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SurvivorArctic |
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They should have been given a problem like this:
Find a value of c such that the conclusion of the mean value theorem is satisfied for f(x) = -2x3+ 6x - 2 OR Use the mean value theorem to prove that for any two real numbers a and b, | cos a - cos b| <= | a - b| then we'd see who knows what. |
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blistering |
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Yeah that would have made everything a lot more plausible.
Though everyone knows any good arithmetic problem involves a google-plex or two as a term. So I'm a little saddened by that as well. I think the omission of any imaginary terms was a blatant attempt to dumb down the problem so Stephan could win. |
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SurvivorArctic |
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How about this:
A 'snooker' table (measuring 8 metres by 4m) with 4 'pockets' (measuring 0.5m and placed at diagonal slants in all 4 corners) contains 10 balls (each with a diameter of 0.25m) placed at the following coords: 2m,1m...(white ball) ...and red balls... 1m,5m... 2m,5m... 3m,5m 1m,6m... 2m,6m... 3m,6m 1m,7m... 2m,7m... 3m,7m The white ball is then shot at a particular angle from 0 to 360 degrees (0 being north, and going clockwise). Just to make it clear, a ball is 'potted' if at least half of the ball is in area of the 'pocket' Assuming the balls travel indefinitely (i.e. no loss of energy via friction, air resistance or collisions), answer the following: a: What exact angle/s should you choose to ensure that all the balls are potted the quickest? b: What is the minimum amount of contacts the balls can make with each other before they are all knocked in? c: Same as b, except that each ball - just before it is knocked in - must not have hit the white ball on its previous contact (must be a red instead of course). d: What proportion of angles will leave the white ball the last on the table to be potted? i think a problem about balls would be right up Coach's alley! |
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BortBort |
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Or they could just do another puzzle
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blistering |
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But coach would be the one person who happened to have done that already while trapped under root vegetables in some jungle cannibal's cook pot.
But he'd still lose. That's the fun part. |
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trickmind |
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Posts: 1649 (05/10/09 4:09 AM) Dragonslayer |
SurvivorArctic wrote:According to Super Jude he also hates Jews |
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Mypoody2 |
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SurvivorArctic wrote: You have trouble with the order of operations, I really don't think you should strain yourself with functions, or did they up you to some new daily vitamins? It's cool though, continue to try and prove your intelligence after your embarrassing math fail. You are a woman though, so I guess it's to be expected... |
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JaniTholeMyDolly |
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Vicarious wrote:To be fair- he was doing calculus at only 5 months old, so he could have forgotten it by now. The Wade men are a SEA of knowledge. And given his "Tow-Chin" training for the past 5 years, he didn't have enough time to brush up on math since about age 4. |
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JaniTholeMyDolly |
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SurvivorArctic wrote: Doing that equation after digging a hole and running under nets would have caused head explosions all around.
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