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[KefkaticFanatic]

NOT IN THE THOUGHTS THREAD

[universe-X]

Completely Lol'd when I saw this.

[Seeker]

Going off Davey's post, x^3+64 looks pretty simple to me. Problems like that are so subjective.

[Jamaha]

"2. A nuclear bomb has exploded in the stratosphere above Otaniemi, and every single Tamagotchi has gone silent forever. Every single calculator is gone and logarithm tables and slide rules are in a worldwide Stuff from the slide -exhibition in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Our survival depends weirdly from a fact, whether or not we can calculate the approximation of the number a = ln 3 with accuracy of one percent.

Save us!

Hint: Someone wrote this to the wall of the men's room in HUT's main building:
1/e = <something here>"

Bored math professors?

[ThatGamer]

Anyone know the answer to this:

2x + 1\3 + x - 2\4 - x - 3\6 + 5 - x\2

An immediate reply would be appreciated.

[mikey]

(2x+X-X-(X/2)) + ((1/3)-(2/4)-(3/6)+5)
try that instead

[ThatGamer]

Whaaaaaa?...

[Maelstrom]

Order of operations.

[ThatGamer]

Maybe you guys aren't reading the question properly...the \ is a fraction, not division

[Maelstrom]

Technically, a fraction is a division

[ThatGamer]

Oh.

[Maelstrom]

But if all you want is simplification, just combine like terms. Use least common denominators for the fractions and the Xs. Combine like terms to get your answer.

[ThatGamer]

Ok!

[Clanker37]

Here's my working plus answer. It's probably wrong since I haven't done algebra in a while. But it scares me how much I liked doing it.

My answer

2x + 1\3 + x - 2\4 - x - 3\6 + 5 - x\2
Thus:
2x+1/3+x-2/4-x-3/6+5-x/2
+x and - x cancel each other.
-2/4 and -3/6 both equal to -1/2, hence:
2x+1/3-1/2-1/2+5-x/2
Which is basically:
2x+1/3-1+5-x/2
Common denominator:
12x/6+2/6-6/6+30/6-3x/6
or just:
(12x+2-6+30-3x)/6
Solve:
(9x+26)/6
Then divide:
1.5x+26/6
(26/6 is a nasty number so I'd leave it as a fraction)

[close]

[ThatGamer]

Ok! See guys? That's the answer I was looking for!
                               _
But...26\6...why is 4.3 a nasty number?