You guys are all wrong. Let me explain how BODMAS and how your computers calculate There is no such thing as -0 to start with So to break down that equation using BODMAS its like so.. 1 + (-0) + 1 = 2 Since 0 = -0 = +0 To understand this stuff well, every time you see a minus sign use it as a UNARY OPERATOR and not a BINARY OPERATOR. So just put the number with the minus sign in braces and prepend it with a plus (+) BINARY OPERATOR as I have done above. While the minus because of the brackets in the BODMAS rule qualifies it to be a UNARY OPERATOR Hope this clears the air on this simple problem ----- "Collins Areba" <arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
DUDE, there is nothing like negative zero! does not exist. my only word of advise though, when you have to rearrange the equation to justify an arguement, you are doing what we reffered to as MalReasoning. Deiberately refusing to reason..
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Martin G. Kamau < gachunga@gmail.com > wrote:
@Collins I can see where you are coming from but 0 is a negative number (in this case), thus we re-arrange the numbers to have 1+1+(-0) = 2.
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Collins Areba < arebacollins@gmail.com > wrote:
cant believe a BODMAS question can elicit this much response. @Martin you are wrong, true in BODMAS you add before you subtract. so add 0 and 1 first, thats 1, then 1-1 thats zero.
how did you do your addition kwani?
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Martin G. Kamau < gachunga@gmail.com > wrote:
I may be wrong, but according to BODMAS, addition is done before subtraction, therefore 1-0+1 = 2. The mistake folks are making is introducing brackets where there were none, thus the classic creating your own questions :)
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Erick Njenga < eriknjenga@gmail.com > wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtraction
The traditional names for the parts of the formula c − b = a are minuend ( c ) − subtrahend ( b ) = difference ( a ). The words "minuend" and "subtrahend" are uncommon in modern usage. [ 1 ] Instead we say that c and −b are terms, and treat subtraction as addition of the additive inverse . The answer is still called the difference .
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