Guys, we dot really have to jump into all these conclusions and calculations, I think e are making an assumption here. What is the base of the calculations? They didn't say its 10 and there is no enough information from the expression to assume so without loss of generality. 
Or should we say that negative entropy is at play here. I really enjoyed reading this thread.

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> wrote:

when you have to rearrange the equation to justify an arguement, you are doing what we reffered to as MalReasoning. Deiberately refusing to reason.. 


Areba .. LOL! ,

Not to derail the discussion, but the term `MalReasoning` has taken me back 12 years and given me a good laugh in the process .. You see in a certain institution (where I suspect you were) , it was construed that since `malfunction` and `malnutrition` employ the same mechanism to negate their respective nouns, it would be very much in order to describe a fellow/gentleman who purposefully went round the rules of reason to win an argument as one `malreasoning`. the prefix was appropriate in two ways : it not only expressed the force with which the gentleman (most probably in authority, a cop) went against reason, but his acute deficiency of the substance as well. interesting times those were. need i mention that concocting a word like `malreason` was itself an exercise of the vice.. :-)

Back to BODMAS, am now lost for what i thought i knew the answer was. suddenly Gitau's argument seems right!

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