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Re: £.s.d (Pounds stirling, shillings and pence) multiplication
« Reply #45 on: Monday 26 March 18 20:23 BST (UK) »
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Arithmetic is essential, but mathematics is fun. My one reservation is 40 years ago, studying calculus for A level,  and it something  something which I've never needed to use in my professional life. 

I've always loved Maths, as in algebra, geometry etc. However, I'm not great at Arithmetic, and hopeless at mental Arith - always have to write it down. Definitely, maths and Arithmetic are different things.

 know I used calculus in Uni, but probably not since i left.
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Re: £.s.d (Pounds stirling, shillings and pence) multiplication
« Reply #46 on: Monday 26 March 18 20:57 BST (UK) »
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Re: £.s.d (Pounds stirling, shillings and pence) multiplication
« Reply #47 on: Monday 26 March 18 21:46 BST (UK) »
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"I really enjoyed  all branches of Maths but my favourite was Algebra. it seemed so pure and logical  ;D"

Well then Gadget, I am obviously Very impure and Extremely illogical, as proven in the 3% result in my Algebra exam.   ;D ;D :D

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Re: £.s.d (Pounds stirling, shillings and pence) multiplication
« Reply #48 on: Monday 26 March 18 21:50 BST (UK) »
It's Algebra that's pure and logical, JB, not us  ;D ;D
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Re: £.s.d (Pounds stirling, shillings and pence) multiplication
« Reply #49 on: Monday 26 March 18 22:18 BST (UK) »
I had forgotten about calculus. I was fine with maths at O level but by the time I reached university it seemed to have suddenly switched to a foreign language. After 3 terms I took to the world of work, thankfully there were no student loans in those days.

Algebra at O level had fascinated me which is why I probably made the wrong choices going forwards but when I went into IT I found that all those strange formulae with brackets all over the place were just what I was using in writing code.
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Re: £.s.d (Pounds stirling, shillings and pence) multiplication
« Reply #50 on: Tuesday 27 March 18 02:00 BST (UK) »
And matrices, what were they? ???  :-\ :P  Something to do with murdered mothers wasn't it? :o

Oh no, that 's matricide! :o ;D
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Re: £.s.d (C) multiplication
« Reply #51 on: Tuesday 27 March 18 02:57 BST (UK) »
My only major collection of Pounds, Shilings and Pence now lives in a Standard Lamp. When I emigrated from the Mother Country I brought over a very large collection of half pennies. Bought a Standard Lamp over here but it was unstable. Took it apart filled the base with half pennies. Now it is very stable.

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Re: £.s.d (Pounds stirling, shillings and pence) multiplication
« Reply #52 on: Tuesday 27 March 18 04:59 BST (UK) »
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It's Algebra that's pure and logical, JB, not us  ;D ;D

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Re: £.s.d (Pounds stirling, shillings and pence) multiplication
« Reply #53 on: Tuesday 27 March 18 08:44 BST (UK) »
Them were the days, doing pounds, shillings & pence, long division and log tables with zilch out of 10 in my maths book, trying not too fidget on the seat with ones sore bum from the dreaded size 12 pump :'(, while being watched by the brainy smirk face smarty pants of the class with gold stars in their exercise books.   :-[  :-[ :-[
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