Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned

[Punkawallah]

All female mammals do...

Aaaand now female Blue Whales are my ‘brain worm’. Thanks.

 

[Animo]

Aaaand now female Blue Whales are my ‘brain worm. Thanks.

Clit the size of a family hatchback?

 

[Punkawallah]

Clit the size of a family hatchback?

The brain worm does not need feeding, if you don’t mind.

 

[DaveReading]

I remember it as BODMAS: Brackets Off, Divide, Multiply, Add, Subtract.

The way I learned it at school was Brackets, Order, Divide ... (Order meaning power, i.e. squared, cubed, etc).

Nowadays I have to teach it to my students as BIDMAS, same idea but now the I stands for Index, with the above meaning.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Zathros??

no Zathras

and certainly not Zathras - he knows nothing
but Zathras might know


if you never watched Babylon5 then this will make no sense
it's not you

 

[Dave7]

no Zathras

and certainly not Zathras - he knows nothing
but Zathras might know


if you never watched Babylon5 then this will make no sense
it's not you

No, never watched it.

 

[AndyRM]

No, never watched it.

Zathras is a character who has infinite (I think) brothers all with the same spelling but slightly different pronunciations.

It ties in with your "school" thing, but is only funny if you know that.

 

[Alex321]

I am sure it is, but in my day to day life, never have I, say, been in a shop and the prices for things have been Y+X.


'Tis all nonsense I tell you, nonsense!!

So no, I never learned my Z Times Table or any of the others!

You have almost certainly used simple algebra though without even realising.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

You have almost certainly used simple algebra though without even realising.

I think I went to Algebra on my holidays one year.

Seriously though, probably in puzzles and so on, but where are you suggesting? Indulge me.

 

[ColinJ]

I am sure it is, but in my day to day life, never have I, say, been in a shop and the prices for things have been Y+X.

It is remarkably useful when you go into a shop and the smartarse shop owner tells you that you can pay one of three prices for your trolley load of shopping - the actual price of £127.54, or either of the solutions to the quadratic equation (3*x*x - 588.06*x + 19,423.3155) = 0.

The shop owner stands there with a stupid smug look on his face and waits...

You think that £127.54 is a bit steep, so you do the calculation...

Ha - got it...

"Dear shop owner, your prices are a bit steep so I will pass on £127.54, and I sure as hell am not going to pay you £153.97. I will pay you the £42.05 instead, ta very much!"

The owner looks glum, and rings up the lower price.

See - algebra can be very useful when shopping!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

It is remarkably useful when you go into a shop and the smartarse shop owner tells you that you can pay one of three prices for your trolley load of shopping - the actual price of £127.54, or either of the solutions to the quadratic equation (3*x*x - 588.06*x + 19,423.3155) = 0.

The shop owner stands there with a stupid smug look on his face and waits...

You think that £127.54 is a bit steep, so you do the calculation...

Ha - got it...

"Dear shop owner, your prices are a bit steep so I will pass on £127.54, and I sure as hell am not going to pay you £153.97. I will pay you the £42.05 instead, ta very much!"

The owner looks glum, and rings up the lower price.

See - algebra can be very useful when shopping!

I think I've just had a stroke...

 

[ColinJ]

I think I've just had a stroke...

I can remember things (like algebra!) that I learned at school 60 years ago, but I can get to episode 5 of a 6 part series on Netflix before I remember that I had already watched it the year before!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I can remember things (like algebra!) that I learned at school 60 years ago, but I can get to episode 5 of a 6 part series on Netflix before I remember that I had already watched it the year before!

I think I might actually have mild dyscalculia.

I have tried, really, I have, but I always seem to reach a certain point and then it all starts going to pieces and I just cannot do it.

I was always in the bottom class in Maths at school, so I also was just never taught things in the first place. 😊

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

When it comes to physics, etc, yes, I understand the theories and so on behind it all, but the maths?? Heck no!

 

[ColinJ]

I think I actually have mild discalcula.

I always assumed that people who said that they couldn't do/understand maths just hadn't had good teachers, but maybe there is some specific part of the brain that isn't quite working favourably.

I found working with numbers and words very easy. Working with people though, that has always been my weakness!