don_quixote
Trent End
i don't either, but i get a rough idea
I can add/subtract/multiply/divide, but the rest gives me a headache. I have to use paper and pen for percentages, and have to do long division to work them out, I can't do them in my head. In fact, I've even phoned up a mate to help me calculate a total.
As for pi and cosine, forget it, I'd switched off by then. I hated maths at school, but then the teacher was a bastard. And I always check my change, cos for the past 10 years I seem to have become a magnet for those old 5p coins (the 1980s ones that are just about current 10p sized)
I wonder sometimes whether number concept is innate in some people and with the number of musicians on this board - is there any truth in the much paraded trope about the relationship between maths and music?
I've heard that the only three areas in which it's possible to be a genuine child prodigy are music, maths and chess.
The disagreement was over how many eights there are in forty-two
Her Majesty's Government's accountants can't get their sums right - that's a worry for us all but not a big surprise to be honest. They're never gonna reduce the defiict."I spotted a whopping error our accountant made last month in our cashflow forecast - dozy bastard had gross profit margin calculation arse backwards. That's a worry."