Just a quickie in reponse to the comments, for which I am extremely grateful, from A and Eats Wombats on the previous post. I love opportunities to learn new things.
Question : Was the bomdas/bodmas rule developped because of computing?
Please see here.
A quick and extremely unscientific poll revealed that 13/15 poeple met over the past few [...]
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Other than the birth of my children, the achievement of which I am most proud is having obtained an A at Maths GCSE. I’m pleased to say that my Maths teacher almost needed smelling salts when the results were pinned to the board, having told me I was a hopeless case for several years. (I [...]
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
We will remember them.
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Given current climate, feels odd to be saying that about, among very many others, merchant bankers, but….
I have no doubt whatsoever that many [...]
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Just a quickie
There are 10 sorts of people in this world :-
those who get binary,
and those who don’t.
TTFN
P.S. Please post the number you read first time in the comments, after all, there was a clue in the title.
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I’m not very good at current affairs, so this and this aren’t exactly hot off the press. But the pictures of thousands of fridges stacked up awaiting disposal stuck in my mind. Apparently also in other people’s.
We have a great service where the council come round once a month for any outsize ‘rubbish’, so at [...]
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