48÷2(9+3) = ???? (physics, cable, iPod, websites)

[duster1979]

This has to be the greatest thread ever that tvandsportsguy hasn't posted in.

Unless TVSG has posted in here somewhere, then it is simply the best thread ever period.

[BigJon3475]

Originally Posted by GunnerTHB

And the technique used by most on here is an incorrect one. The answer is 288.

or 90/5(10+6)

[prince40000]

Originally Posted by Bideshi

Thank you for a simple explanation to a simple high school equation. I hope the petroleum engineers among us are beginning to understand why their clients keep coming up with dry holes ...

geez guess you people are so jealous of us big oil companies posting billions of dollars in profits every quarter.

<Mod Cut - Personal Attack> the answer is 2.

[Bideshi]

Originally Posted by prince40000

geez guess you people are so jealous of us big oil companies posting billions of dollars in profits every quarter.

and you are pathetically wrong again, the answer is 2.

Please tell me which oil company you work with!

[Bideshi]

Originally Posted by prince40000

the answer is 2.

If the question was "what is the square root of 4?", yes.

Now that I did the hard one for you, what is the square root of 2?

[NJBest]

Originally Posted by prince40000

geez guess you people are so jealous of us big oil companies posting billions of dollars in profits every quarter.

The general public should be happy with oil companies posting billions of dollars in profits. The general public owns most of them.

[gallowsCalibrator]

Originally Posted by Bideshi

If the question was "what is the square root of 4?", yes.

Now that I did the hard one for you, what is the square root of 2?

But he'd still be wrong if that was the question, the square root of 4 is ±2...

Just sayin'

[Darkatt]

Originally Posted by bideshi

if the question was "what is the square root of 4?", yes.

Now that i did the hard one for you, what is the square root of 2?

err that would be a positive or negative 2 for the first answer?

1.4142135623730951 <g>

[Bideshi]

Originally Posted by Darkatt

err that would be a positive or negative 2 for the first answer?

1.4142135623730951 <g>

You're right. It wasn't easy back in my day when we had to do math with Roman numerals and no '0' or decimal point...

[Darkatt]

Originally Posted by Bideshi

You're right. It wasn't easy back in my day when we had to do math with Roman numerals and no '0' or decimal point...

Well, lol, back in the day we used slide rules and log tables.

This was actually fairly simple, though a bit time consuming.

X= the number we are solving for, square root of 2,

((2/x)+x)/2

So we start with a number like X=1.5, and run that equation half a dozen times, and when the answer stops changing dramatically, I just rounded up a few decimal points cause I didn't feel like typing it out to 20 plus places and we have the answer.

It sad that these days people think a calculator is required. When my kids were growing up, I wouldn't let them use a calculator till the graphing calculator was required for math. even to this day, my kids can total and figure change faster than the person at a register can, WITH the cash register.