on a lighter note...

[JOHN GRENZ]

 

[spike.t]

 

[spike.t]

 

[Ridge Runner]

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......'50's, 60's, and 70's. Quite possibly as far back as the mid to late 1940's.

" if the car's a rockin', Don't come a knocking."

 

[Doug Hamilton]

......'50's, 60's, and 70's. Quite possibly as far back as the mid to late 1940's.

" if the car's a rockin', Don't come a knocking."

Makes me miss the 70's. Sigh...

 

[spike.t]

 

[JOHN GRENZ]

 

[JOHN GRENZ]

 

[Boyd Brooks]

The General Electric!

 

[Boyd Brooks]

 

[Boyd Brooks]

A picture is worth a thousand words!

 

[JOHN GRENZ]

 

[jpr9954]

 

[jpr9954]

 

[jpr9954]

And the correct answer is....

 

[1911Fan]

And the correct answer is....

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12

 

[sgt_zim]

And the correct answer is....

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They're both wrong - the answer is 12.

The commutative property + Order of operations + disambiguation results in

6 + 6 + (6 x 6 x 0)

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> 6 + 6 + 6 * 6 * 0
12

Python, C++, Java, C# - all yield the same result.

you could sort-of ignore OOO if the equation were re-written and evaluated left to right as

6 * 6 * 0 + 6 + 6

Without understanding the commutative property, you would end up with 2 different and "correct" answers.

But the commutative declares that 6 + 6 + 6 * 6 * 0 = 6 * 6 * 0 + 6 + 6. If we didn't have that property, computer programming would not work because math wouldn't work.

 

[Nyati]

 

[Nyati]

 

[Nyati]