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Re: Maths question
« Reply #150 on: March 25, 2010, 03:22:57 PM »
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You mean you can't do maths but you know how to make the machine do it?

Did I say that...?  rubschin:


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In your mind perhaps...  lol:

I have a daughter who managed a B in GCSE Maths but still doesn't know any times tables beyond 4. Baffled me until she revealed that most of the work is done using a 'pooter and/or a calculator.

So she can't do the maths but knows a machine that can.  noooo:

As I pointed out that will do her no good when she has ?20 in her purse and needs to work out what she can buy with it. This argument is, she tell me, flawed in that she would simply put her purchases on a credit card.

Frankly I can't wait to see how she copes when she leaves home  eveilgrin:

Rubbish in/rubbish out tho...

You can't build a working spreadsheet unless you know which formula to put in each box... A thorough understanding of BOMDAS helps too...  lol:

Do you mean BODMAS?  whistle:

It was always BOMDAS when I was a kid...  rubschin:

That was pre-metric mind...  ;D
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Re: Maths question
« Reply #151 on: March 25, 2010, 03:25:18 PM »
We had BPDMAS. Grammar schools and all that...
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Re: Maths question
« Reply #152 on: March 25, 2010, 03:28:06 PM »
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We had BPDMAS. Grammar schools and all that...

Bog Street Comprehensive for me...  redface:
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Re: Maths question
« Reply #153 on: March 25, 2010, 03:29:45 PM »
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Quote from: The Moan Ranger on March 25, 2010, 03:25:18 PM
We had BPDMAS. Grammar schools and all that...

Bog Street Comprehensive for me...  redface:

I'm still shite with Excel though  ;D
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Re: Maths question
« Reply #154 on: March 25, 2010, 03:35:01 PM »
Quote from: The Moan Ranger on March 25, 2010, 03:20:50 PM
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You mean you can't do maths but you know how to make the machine do it?

Did I say that...?  rubschin:


Nearly  whistle:

In your mind perhaps...  lol:

I have a daughter who managed a B in GCSE Maths but still doesn't know any times tables beyond 4. Baffled me until she revealed that most of the work is done using a 'pooter and/or a calculator.

So she can't do the maths but knows a machine that can.  noooo:

As I pointed out that will do her no good when she has ?20 in her purse and needs to work out what she can buy with it. This argument is, she tell me, flawed in that she would simply put her purchases on a credit card.

Frankly I can't wait to see how she copes when she leaves home  eveilgrin:

Rubbish in/rubbish out tho...

You can't build a working spreadsheet unless you know which formula to put in each box... A thorough understanding of BOMDAS helps too...  lol:

Do you mean BODMAS?  whistle:

I was fairly sure he did mean that ..... of course it wasn't called that when I was at school.

We knew it as "Bend over boy ~ I'll cane you until you learn to do it in the right order"

Which is probably why we didn't forget how.
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Re: Maths question
« Reply #155 on: March 25, 2010, 03:41:16 PM »
 noooo: noooo: noooo: noooo: Angry9: Angry9: Angry9: cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing:
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Re: Maths question
« Reply #156 on: March 25, 2010, 03:50:03 PM »
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Quote from: The Moan Ranger on March 25, 2010, 03:25:18 PM
We had BPDMAS. Grammar schools and all that...

Bog Street Comprehensive for me...  redface:

I'm still shite with Excel though  ;D

I learnt my trade with VisiCalc like, then Lotus, Context MBA, etc. before Excel....
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Re: Maths question
« Reply #157 on: March 25, 2010, 03:52:07 PM »
You lot make my head hurt  noooo:
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Re: Maths question
« Reply #158 on: March 25, 2010, 04:06:23 PM »
Simples
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Re: Maths question
« Reply #159 on: March 25, 2010, 05:45:55 PM »
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Re: Maths question
« Reply #160 on: March 26, 2010, 08:57:25 AM »
Are we all ready for another fun day of mathamatical workings out, confuslication and puzzlement then?  happy088
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Re: Maths question
« Reply #161 on: March 26, 2010, 09:03:03 AM »
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Re: Maths question
« Reply #162 on: March 26, 2010, 09:09:42 AM »
Quote from: Nick on March 26, 2010, 09:03:03 AM
:lalalala

Nah, don't worry, I'm going out soon, and besides, I've found a foolproof and brand new Growler copyrighted method of unconfuslicating VAT calculationanum.  cloud9:

For instance:  ?64.44 VAT @17.5% is the VAT content on a purchase price BEFORE VAT on ?368.23. happy088

Now that only took me approx 60 seconds to work out, and all I did was press a few buttons several times.  cloud9:
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Re: Maths question
« Reply #163 on: March 26, 2010, 09:16:19 AM »
That doesn't look right to me  noooo:
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Re: Maths question
« Reply #164 on: March 26, 2010, 09:22:37 AM »
Quote from: Nick on March 26, 2010, 09:16:19 AM
That doesn't look right to me  noooo:

Well simply multiply ?368.23 by 17.5% and I think you'll find it is indeed correct.
Add the two figures together, and voila ?432.67.

And you thought I was dim ey? ::)

Give me any reasonable figure you like as VAT content, and I'll werk the before VAT figure out for you. Might take a few minutes, but I'll get it for you, sweet as a nut like.
It is a bit of a back to front formulae like granted, but it really does work and the bonus being that all you have to do is press buttons, no complicatiating confuselicating calculatioms to fry your brain, honest.
Alwys happy to help. cloud9:
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