Mathemagicians:

[Fire Walk With Me]

40 + 40 X 0 + 1 =

[stlsaxman]

1. 1

[Fire Walk With Me]

32. That was my first answer..

[Donald Ian Rankin]

2. 41.

[LonePirate]

5. Yes, 41.The x takes priority over the + so that gives us 40 + 0 + 1 = 41

[Angry Dragon]

9. why??

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. Oh, that causes 40 + (40 x 0) + 1?

[rug]

3. 7/16

[HERVEPA]

4. 40 + 0 + 1 = 41

[TroglodyteScholar]

8. +1

...according to "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally" anyway....

[BadgerKid]

6. exp(log(41))

[Jamastiene]

7. 41

Order of operations. Multiply first, then add, in this case.

40*0=0
That leaves 40+1=41

[Scuba]

10. My Dear Aunt Sally told me it's 41. n/t

[originalpckelly]

11. They call it PEMDAS.

Multiplication is higher up the food chain, so it's 41.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

36. Here in the UK it's BODMAS

Brackets Over Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction. What are your PE?

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. Thanks, I thought is was always left-to-right action.

:hi::toast:

[LonePirate]

14. Multiply and divide first, then add and subtract, both from left to right.

[tama]

17. If right to left action

then you need to learn to count as fenno-ugrics do, and if mathemagically, then in base 7. And/or in p-adic completion of the rational numbers...

[toddwv]

31. Convention dictates that the answer is 41

You can check problems like this by Googling the formula. When you type the problem in, Google picks this up and solves it for you using Google's builtin calculator.

[Fire Walk With Me]

33. Ooh, I did not know that. Thank you.

Yep, there it is!

[Twinguard]

15. 41

[tama]

16. 42

what else did you expect, because that is the final answer to everything. So what was your question?

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. I'm going to have to think about it.

[Brother Buzz]

19. That's a trick question. It can be either 666 or 999...depending how you look at it

[xchrom]

20. +eleven. Nt

[Motown_Johnny]

21. anything times 0 = 0, so 0+1=1

[Canuckistanian]

22. By the BMDAS rules, 41

And Aunt Sallie rules.

[Abin Sur]

23. 41.

[Timbuk3]

24. pi * i

[Zorra]

25. 4:20 nt

[Leftist Agitator]

26. Well, in decimal, it equates to...

33. If you calculate it in octal, of course. :)

[Aerows]

27. 41

[laundry_queen]

28. 41

BEMDAS - Brackets (aka parentheses), Exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction.

At least this is what my statistics teacher uses to get us to remember.

so 40X0 = 0
40+0+1 (left to right) = 41

[SoDesuKa]

29. Order of Operations

I don't know if order of operations is anything but a convention. Is there a Euclid's Law or something? If you perform the operations as they come off the tape, you get 40 + 40, 80. 80 times 0, zero. Zero plus one, one.

That's what it says in the Code of Hammurabi, a principle I just invented.

[eppur_se_muova]

30. Illegal assignment statement; can't assign values to literals.

Doesn't end with a semicolon either.

[Quantess]

34. 41

1. multiply or divide
2. add or subtract

[tblue37]

35. 41

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

37. It's simpler written as RPN: 40 0 x 40 + 1 +

Reverse Polish Notation takes care of operator precedence.

41

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