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LoathsomePete 09-10-2012 05:01 PM

Well it was a long week as I got settled into my new place, but I'm pretty happy with what I've managed to do so far.

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I've been doing some research into the house and as evidenced by all the graffiti it was a pretty big party/punk house. I found out that my barber has played shows in my room, as well as my friend's little brother. It's practically a heritage house in some circles.

Goofle 09-10-2012 05:05 PM

I have that white chair. Great taste. :D

LoathsomePete 09-10-2012 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Goofle11 (Post 1229234)
I have that white chair. Great taste. :D

That chair has followed me since 2008 when I moved out on my own for the first time. I've had multiple chances to replace it with a recliner but have declined each time, there's just something about it that makes me want to keep it around.

Freebase Dali 09-10-2012 05:36 PM

That's actually pretty awesome-looking.

14232949 09-10-2012 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 1229228)
So there's this thing going around on Facebook that I've seen before, but decided to participate in. It's one of those math problem pictures that challenges people to solve it. Needless to say, it gets A LOT of replies by the world's geniuses, apparently...

Ultimately, I guess it's a test of whether you know the order of operations or not, and sadly, a depressing number of people have failed. The problem breaks down to, basically, what is 6 + 1, after the multiplication and division has been solved.

But, apparently, a large percentage of grown adults and teenagers alike think you just simply work from left to right. I've never been great at math, but even I remember the order of operations from as long ago as the f*cking early '90s. It's disheartening to know that such basic information about such basic things is something I've apparently been taking for granted all these years...
It's pretty bad when you realize that you get an intelligence buff simply by the baseline sliding into such depths of ignorance.

Remember your BODMAS, Dali.

Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction.

LoathsomePete 09-10-2012 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali (Post 1229246)
That's actually pretty awesome-looking.

Thanks, I'm pretty happy with the cozy feeling it has, while still being pretty big, or at least big enough to have 5 people in it and not feeling like you have to sacrifice your personal space. I wish I had a window though, waking up at 7 am in absolute darkness is just weird, although I am definitely sleeping better.

It's an old house though, and has old house problems, like our bathtub not properly draining despite pouring bleach and draino down it, and then taking apart some of the pipes and poking around for hair clumps.

Freebase Dali 09-10-2012 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by mankycaaant (Post 1229247)
Remember your BODMAS, Dali.

Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction.

I don't know why you're telling me. This problem literally just had a multiplication, division, addition and subtraction in it. Doing the multiplication/division first, the rest of the problem should be obvious.

Here's what it was....

6 - 1 x 0 + 2 / 2

So it's 6 - (1 x 0) + (2 / 2) then...
6 - 0 + 1 then...
6 + 1

Which, apparently for a very large amount of people, equals 0, 1, 5, and occasionally, 3.5 and sometimes -6...

Using the standard order of operations, the answer is 7. Obviously, one should not assume that because addition is worded before subtraction in the PEMDAS or BODMAS acronym, that it should be done first before the other in equal rank. Multiplication and division are the same rank, and addition and subtraction are of the same rank. The order of operations dictates left to right when dealing with same ranks, not which operation appears first in the abbreviation.

Therefore, to solve addition before subtraction based on where the letter appears in the PEMDAS or BODMAS acronym is fallacious and can result in an incorrect answer, depending on the setup of the problem.

Frownland 09-10-2012 06:06 PM

My new didgeridoo came in today. It's got a beeswax mouthpiece and it's extraordinarily loud. Best ten bucks I've ever spent.

[MERIT] 09-10-2012 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by mankycaaant (Post 1229247)
Remember your BODMAS, Dali.

Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction.

There was a thread similar to this on here before, and it came down to what people were actually taught in school as to what were the correct order of operations (both of which had equally substantial and supportive material and arguments)

Besides BODMAS, there was PEMDAS

Parentheses
Exponents
Multiplication
Division
Addition
Subtraction

Using this method, one would get:

6 - 1 x 0 + 2 / 2

6 - (1 x 0) + 2 / 2 [Multiplication]
= 6 - 0 + (2 / 2) [Division]
= 6 - 0 + 1
= 6 - (0 + 1) [Addition]
= 6 - 1 [Subtraction]
= 5

All the discussions basically amounted to exercises in futility. No agreement could be made on whether once the equation was simplified, if addition always took precedence over subtraction [the AS is PEMDAS], and multiplication over division [the MD in PEMDAS], regardless of their left-to-right order in the equation.

Rjinn 09-10-2012 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete (Post 1229231)
Well it was a long week as I got settled into my new place, but I'm pretty happy with what I've managed to do so far.

Before:


After:


I've been doing some research into the house and as evidenced by all the graffiti it was a pretty big party/punk house. I found out that my barber has played shows in my room, as well as my friend's little brother. It's practically a heritage house in some circles.

That's pretty wicked. I'd design my own place like that. Somehow looks comfy too.


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