Pigeon_Droppings2
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Very good....knowledge vs wisdomThe real answer is
Very good....knowledge vs wisdomThe real answer is
But convention removes the need for brackets.Lost me a at post 28 bit the same as these accountants screwing up the world with clever accounting either put the brackets where they should be or do the sum as shown 15 +5 x 4 =80
Is it really? Just been reading the thread and too many other answers (i got one very different from all the others but i never enjoyed maths....)
Damn it, I typed that in and got 35, but in my head, it's 80.
If you want brackets you put brackets in.
Convention obviously doesn't "remove the need for brackets" ...or we would not be having this discussion!But convention removes the need for brackets.
Brackets are what break up convention.
Oops, right. Didn't register the single cherry! I wax only looking for the trick maths, not the trick pictures!
I would say that the above makes it unsolvable.The answer 35 assumes that one cherry is half the value of two cherries.
They never stopped being used....it's just that junior level maths in schools seems to omit brackets....and insists on using the divide symbol instead of "/"Bring Back the Brackets!
Perhaps I'm taking a daft maths puzzle too seriously though
What about concatenation? If a single cherry is 2, for example, two cherries would be 22. Good luck working that backwards from 10. 0.909090 perhaps?It could also be 27.649: we're all assuming that "cherry cherry" means "cherry + cherry", but more conventionally it would mean "cherry × cherry", so a single cherry would be √10.