>Now if programmers are not taught numeric maths... well, they should be.
Talking about Excel and programmers not taught maths, sometimes I despair that people aren't taught, or don't remember, the order of precedence of maths ops, as I learned it - BODMAS (brackets, of, divide, multiply, add, subtract). I used to teach Excel and I always gave my students the following equation:
2 + 4 * 6.
9 out of 10 would answer 36 (and even those who'd already done an Excel course). It seemed I was the only trainer who checked this and I shuddder at the thought of all those spreadsheets out there giving erroneous results.
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