4/20

[Echewta]

:cool:;):confused:

[jabumbo]

my sandwich bun contains poppy seeds

[yeahwho]

It's Hitlers Birthday.

[Ty Webb]

columbine's birthday also

[Guy Incognito]

5

[Rock]

actually its .2

[kleptomaniac]

it's national pineapple upside-down cake day!!!!! :D:D:D

[Guy Incognito]

actually its .2

doesnt it depend where you live like you buggers writing the date the wrong way round .

i think division is displayed a few ways but i cant explain them cos i cant find the different symbols. when i was a kid you put the small number first then a diagonal line with a roof and the big number underneath.

EDIT: Just realised i could have been dead vague and said that it was the 5th post in this thread. bollocks

[Rock]

really? i read it as 4 divided by 20. First the 4 then the divide sign then the number to divide by. I didn't know that they switch that shit up over seas too. Thats just too confusing. What about Foreign Exchange Students? Thats gotta suck nads to get used to. Im all for a universal date sequence though..whatever it may be...same with measurements.

But I have to stand my ground on the division sign. Only because of the sequence of the numbers. If it were Saudi Arabia then 20 divided by 4 makes sense since they write and read all backwards and shit.

[Guy Incognito]

i didnt really think there was any set way. i tend to put numbers on top of each other if i am dividing. i think the way you said is the preferred way but ithink its open to a bit of variance but i am no mathmetic.. mathematic.. numbers bloke.

[faz]

I'm pretty certain there's only one way. 4/20 would be read as 4 divided by 20. You cant just put the little number before the big number then. Would you know what way you were actually doing it?

But yeah. This is about the date. Which americans DO do backwards compared to us. Which always confused me. To us its the 20th day of the 4th month of the 2010th year. Hence 20/4/2010

[Adam]

I'm pretty certain there's only one way. 4/20 would be read as 4 divided by 20. You cant just put the little number before the big number then. Would you know what way you were actually doing it?

But yeah. This is about the date. Which americans DO do backwards compared to us. Which always confused me. To us its the 20th day of the 4th month of the 2010th year. Hence 20/4/2010

Which makes sense as there is some sort of order to it - as in the number that changes most often is at the front. HOWEVER! What would make more sense would be 2010/04/20 as that is the way we count - always changing the last number until we hit a 9 and then we also change the number in front of it.

Who invented the date - I bet it was the greeks. How do they do it?

[Dorothy Wood]

i didnt really think there was any set way. i tend to put numbers on top of each other if i am dividing. i think the way you said is the preferred way but ithink its open to a bit of variance but i am no mathmetic.. mathematic.. numbers bloke.


there's definitely a set way! argh! the dividend (a) goes over or comes before the divisor (b)! always! (c) is the quotient! ack!

a/b=c

you can't interchange the dividend and the divisor because you wouldn't get the same result.

4/20=0.2

20/4=5


when i was a kid you put the small number first then a diagonal line with a roof and the big number underneath.

This is particularly disturbing to me. Fractions are a representation of a number of parts per whole. You can have top heavy fractions, but they should be reduced. Something like 33/16 is definitely a valid number, but it should be reduced to 2 1/16, or 2.0625

grr!



Sincerely,
a former math tutor

[Dorothy Wood]

also, as for the date...Americans say, "it's April 20th", so it makes sense that the date is written in the same order. Not sure what's so confusing about that, or why it's somehow wrong or stupid or less than the day/month/year format used in europe. Especially when whoever made the decision to do it that way is long dead and nobody using it today ever got a choice in the matter.

[TAL]

Americans say "4th of July". So all dates should be written in the order the most important date is written.

[Dorothy Wood]

Americans say "4th of July". So all dates should be written in the order the most important date is written.

Lots of people say "July 4th". The 4th of July is just a name for the holiday. and generally, people will refer to it as "the fourth".

[TAL]

I just wrote that because it always comes up in these kinds of threads.


Also, day/month/year is more of a world thing. Not just European.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Date_upd1.PNG

[paul jones]

I need to go and buy a nasal trimmer

[TAL]

Hahaha, I enjoy how the link turned out.

Now my dinner is ready.

[Guy Incognito]

there's definitely a set way! argh! the dividend (a) goes over or comes before the divisor (b)! always! (c) is the quotient! ack!

a/b=c

you can't interchange the dividend and the divisor because you wouldn't get the same result.

4/20=0.2

20/4=5




This is particularly disturbing to me. Fractions are a representation of a number of parts per whole. You can have top heavy fractions, but they should be reduced. Something like 33/16 is definitely a valid number, but it should be reduced to 2 1/16, or 2.0625

grr!



Sincerely,
a former math tutor

ok but there was no need to get yer fractions out

[Dorothy Wood]

I just wrote that because it always comes up in these kinds of threads.


Also, day/month/year is more of a world thing. Not just European.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Date_upd1.PNG

Okay okay, the "world"...whatever that is! :p

ok but there was no need to get yer fractions out

I don't know what this means. I was trying to come up with a rebuttal, but I can't think of what getting fractions out refers to. So, you're a fraction, ha! take that!

USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!

[Guy Incognito]

I don't know what this means.

Neither do I, i was just being daft. nice rebuttal.

[Dorothy Wood]

thanks, I've been working out.

[Guy Incognito]

thanks, I've been working out.

working out fractions

[jabumbo]

hell yeah, kenya



and i call it independence day

[jackrock]

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