Thank you!
Damn, I was going to post that, still made me laugh though.
I’ve been hoping that “I can explain it to you but only if you FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LETTER!!” (followed by a series of demands to watch cheesy movies and read silly books very closely) becomes a new dope cliche, along with “1920’s style death ray” and “Once, in 1960, for twenty minutes.” So props to you Smeghead, for helping to make this happen.
For public schools these days, most 7th graders are doing math at a 4th grade level.
I responded to you many times, always ignored. I see two possibilities:
You know something about this, but can’t write well enough to demonstrate it.
You don’t know anything about math.
I’m tending towards a third - you don’t know anything about math AND you can’t write.
So, why don’t you return to the thread and give us some indication you know what you’re talking about.
Go for the i Boo, go for the i!
Definition of a sinking feeling:
A dear friend comes to you and says, “Hey! I can prove that algebra is fatally flawed!” Here followeth several circuitous demonstrations and workings that eventually come to something involving 1 - 0.999… = 0 when “obviously” it should be 0.000…001.
You realize that you will now have to explain why 0.999… = 1, and you realize what a fuss you made about that one in grade 6, and since your friend came to you propounding a belief instead of asking a question, you will never satisfy him.
sigh
Forget the Rotel, who was supposed to bring the chips?
It’s true, I got nothin’. I just wanted my post to bask in the reflected intellectual glow of this thread.
-Jellyblue, iffy on the whole long division thing.
Heh. The way they’re teaching math these days, I sometimes have a hard time figuring out the instructions on my 1st grader’s math homework.
Of course, I’m also the broad who needs a couple of hours, a stiff drink, and a good run-up to balance my checkbook; now there’s an exercise in irrational numbers. The linked thread made my eyeballs spin around and bounce off each other.