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Yeah it was talked about quite a bit when the changes were made. I'll see if I can't dig it up later if I have time.

The debt figures didn't include the things I mentioned like Iraq and Afghanistan prior to Obama, it's one of the changes they made.

You know nothing about the military if you think that Obama could have pulled out of Iraq and Afghanistan or even shut down Guantanamo already. Going in is easy pulling out is hard...just ask your Dad. I never said you're a Bush supporter, but you compared two unalike numbers claiming Obama is causing even larger debt growth already in his term compared to Bush without taking into account the increased accountability of spending in some big areas.

That take into account the changes that the Obama administration is accounting for like Iraq and Afghanistan, whole costs of Medicare reimbursements, and others? Amazing what it does to the figure when you suddenly have to account for billions more that wasn't included previously.

Oh yeah?

What kind of douchebags would do something like that?

That one I can see. I must have skimmed over something and missed it then. I assumed (wrongly it seems) the comment was about carrying in establishments that serve alcohol.

Restoration of what right?

Wolfram Alpha makes an incorrect assumption about a ambiguous problem and ends up providing the wrong answer.

I don't mind Katy Perry, but Kanye just sucks. His flow is horrible, his voice sucks. Back in the day you had to have the voice and flow for hip hop or rap. Today it's just whoever get's marketed the best no matter the genre really.

Ah gotcha.

Wrong.

The problem isn't an order of operations one, it's a distributive property or multiplication by juxtaposition issue.

The order of operations is nice, but things aren't always that simple. 48÷2*(9+3) = 288 48÷2(9+3) = 2 The guy next to me asked how many of these people that are saying 288 have math degrees?

Multiplication by juxtaposition takes presedence, clear the parentheses completely first before moving on.

Because the Busa is too much bike for them.

So I asked a coworker this morning that has a degree in mathematics and participates in algorithm challenges; he said it was 2 as well.

It's alright if you are doing basic things.

You notice someone forgot to lock their computer while emptying their trash tonight?

Meh I just emailed the math department at MIT.

Not my rules. My math teacher was good enough to explain these situations, sorry yours wasn't. If you go into that other thread linked to the physics forum they mention purplemath.com, another site and a reference to an engineering math book or something that have these and there are plenty of others. It's too ambiguous. TI Implied Math http://www.purplemath.com/modules/orderops2.htm

Nick isn't necessarily wrong. It depends on what the original author intended. I've seen it plenty of times where brackets here would be implied: 48÷[2(9+3)] or 48÷((2*9)+(2*3)) Writing it like 48/2(9+3) also can cause problems, because it often gets interpreted as: 48 -------- as in anything to the right of the divisor is a part of the denominator. 2(9+3) What's missing is context.

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