my secret

dubtom

All these 'looking back to childhood' threads have reminded me of my deepest darkest secret. I honestly don't know how I've survived in the big bad world for all these years but I have to out with it now. I can't do long division. It just never clicked. In school that day I must have goofed off in my head somewhere and when I came round everyone was carrying the 5 and giving back the 0 or something,I just pretended I knew what they were on about. For shame I know,I've been avoiding large numbers for years.

El Weirdo

dubtom wrote: »

All these 'looking back to childhood' threads have reminded me of my deepest darkest secret. I honestly don't know how I've survived in the big bad world for all these years but I have to out with it now. I can't do long division. It just never clicked. In school that day I must have goofed off in my head somewhere and when I came round everyone was carrying the 5 and giving back the 0 or something,I just pretended I knew what they were on about. For shame I know,I've been avoiding large numbers for years.

Where you out the day they did paragraphs too?

Agricola

Ok.

Now I know its time for bed!

themont85

El Weirdo wrote: »

Where you out the day they did paragraphs too?

Were you out the day they taught the 5 Ws?

Senna

Thats not a secret.

Ruining the lives of others and having to move away before anyone found out, now thats a secret.

dubtom

El Weirdo wrote: »

Where you out the day they did paragraphs too?

Paragraphs,it's only four lines.

El Weirdo

themont85 wrote: »

Were you out the day they taught the 5 Ws?

Damn! Damn! Damn!

twowheelsonly

themont85 wrote: »

Were you out the day they taught the 5 Ws?

Class :P

wireless101

"carrying" numbers is a pile of ****e anyway...just do it in your head.

mikom

dubtom wrote: »

I can't do long division. It just never clicked.

Don't worry dubtom, help is just a phone call away.
Dial maths-line on 1-800-[(10x)(13i)^2]-[sin(xy)/2.362x]

Hank_Jones

I honestly don't know how you live with yourself.

AnonoBoy

I'm not arsed reading your post so I'm just going to respond to the thread title and say - unless it's covering up child rape in the Catholic Church or causing the banks to crash I'd say you'll be forgiven so don't stress it kid.

punchdrunk

the last time I divided anything it was a cheesecake and the only maths I needed were how to figure out which one was the big half

AnonoBoy

mikom wrote: »

Don't worry dubtom, help is just a phone call away.
Dial maths-line on 1-800-[(10x)(13i)^2]-[sin(xy)/2.362x]

+ (</=10+/-15x/1.34)

minidazzler

OP, calculaters were invented for exactly this reason. You don't need to know how to do it and you never will again!

Davidius

Don't worry OP, I did a dissertation in Group Theory and I don't even know who Al Gebra is.

I may have made that up.

Hank_Jones

Davidius wrote: »

Don't worry OP, I did a dissertation in Group Theory and I don't even know who Al Gebra is.

Yeah, sure you don't...

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Al_Gebra




Terrorist.

Joey the lips

My father never did division in school. However how he got around this was with multiplication.

For example... How many times does 25 go into 2550

So 10 x 25 = 250

So 100 x 25 = 2500

So the answer is 102 times..... No division in sight and using your head as well.



These days I could not be arsed I just use a spread sheet or a calculator.

bonerm

dubtom wrote: »

All these 'looking back to childhood' threads have reminded me of my deepest darkest secret. I honestly don't know how I've survived in the big bad world for all these years but I have to out with it now. I can't do long division. It just never clicked. In school that day I must have goofed off in my head somewhere and when I came round everyone was carrying the 5 and giving back the 0 or something,I just pretended I knew what they were on about. For shame I know,I've been avoiding large numbers for years.

I know what you mean. I was out the day we did the doppler effect and after that I didn't know whether I was coming or going.

Mahatma coat

yer not alone OP, I tried and tried and tried but I could never get me head arounde it, then me grandad explained Factoring to me and thats how I do it much like Joey described

sean corcoran

mikom wrote: »

Don't worry dubtom, help is just a phone call away.
Dial maths-line on 1-800-[(10x)(13i)^2]-[sin(xy)/2.362x]

yeah nerds square root 16 life

Hagar

Did anyone every find out what x was?

bonerm

69 wrote: »

Did anyone every find out what x was?

"love"

Hank_Jones

I think this is fitting for this thread.

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p299/nickolai69/findX.jpg

orourkeda

http://www.ecarepackage.org/ecareshop/images/calculator.jpg

littlefriend

Joey the lips wrote: »

My father never did division in school. However how he got around this was with multiplication.

For example... How many times does 25 go into 2550

So 10 x 25 = 250

So 100 x 25 = 2500

So the answer is 102 times..... No division in sight and using your head as well.

I always work stuff out like that too. I was in Disneyworld when we were learning long division and I still don't really know how to do it. I always hated that it looked really messy when written down.

cynder

Think i had a bigger secret than that but i let it slip yesterday in a thread about reading books. So no longer a secret.

genericguy

dubtom wrote: »

Paragraphs,it's only four lines.

well since we're all correcting each other, it's 5 lines.

NothingMan

genericguy wrote: »

well since we're all correcting each other, it's 5 lines.

That W should be upper case.

genericguy

NothingMan wrote: »

That W should be upper case.

up your case

dubtom

genericguy wrote: »

up your case

Should that not be,Up your case:D

az2wp0sye65487

bonerm wrote: »

I know what you mean. I was out the day we did the doppler effect and after that I didn't know whether I was coming or going.

Same thing happened to me, but not after missing a lesson on the Doppler Effect.... It was after I mixed up my Viagra with my Laxatives.

Dohnny Jepp

genericguy wrote: »

well since we're all correcting each other, it's 5 lines.

Depends on your monitor size. Its 3 for moi:P

old gregg

Dohnny Jepp wrote: »

Depends on your monitor size. Its 3 for moi:P

should that not be pour moi?

Wizard007

old gregg wrote: »

should that not be pour moi?

Should that not be Should that not be pour moi?

ejmaztec

I used to carry a big bag of marbles around so that I could do complicated sums in shops, but then one day I lost my marbles and things haven't been the same since.

Smart Bug

Joey the lips wrote: »

My father never did division in school. However how he got around this was with multiplication.

For example... How many times does 25 go into 2550

So 10 x 25 = 250

So 100 x 25 = 2500

So the answer is 102 times..... No division in sight and using your head as well.

These days I could not be arsed I just use a spread sheet or a calculator.

But that's essentially long division. You take a guess at how many times the divisor goes into the dividend, bang it down, subtract it from the dividend and keep going until you have a remainder (or none). Simples.

In your Dad's case it should be:

25 * 100 = 2,500, 2,550 - 2,500 leaves 50
25 * 2 = 50, so the answer's 102.

Oh yeah, the line in bold doesn't make sense either.

Joey the lips

Smart Bug wrote: »

But that's essentially long division. You take a guess at how many times the divisor goes into the dividend, bang it down, subtract it from the dividend and keep going until you have a remainder (or none). Simples.

In your Dad's case it should be:

25 * 100 = 2,500, 2,550 - 2,500 leaves 50
25 * 2 = 50, so the answer's 102.

Oh yeah, the line in bold doesn't make sense either.

no... its multiplication.....

Stinicker

At my 8th Birthday party some genius decided to have a game of murder in the dark, I promptly walloped my 12 year old cousin ricky across the head with the fireplace shovel and knocked him unconscious. The party pretty much ended after that!

NothingMan

When I was 10 me and 5 of my friends from school tried to walk to the Hellfire club from our road in Tallaght. We got halfway up the hill through farms, chased by a bull, cut our clothes on barbed wire and got completely lost. After much walking, and some ghost stories and some of the "tougher" kids crying (I was a bit of a wuss kid but I didn't break down like a girl), we eventually ran through a farmers garden, got chased by his dog and climbed the big gate out onto a road.
We came to a fork and flagged down a car to tell us what way to go. Eventually got home about 9pm and told my Mam I was in a friends house all day. I've never told her the truth.

dubtom

Well seeing as other people are unburdening themselves I have another one.
I took a dump in Sister Marys class,I was too afraid to ask her could I use the loo because she was an evil bitch for a nun.

I denied all knowledge,although looking back it was fairly obvious I was the guilty party.

The waddle home was fairly painful.

Also, have I fulfilled my paragraph obligations?

starbelgrade

dubtom wrote: »

Well seeing as other people are unburdening themselves I have another one.
I took a dump in Sister Marys class,I was too afraid to ask her could I use the loo because she was an evil bitch for a nun.

I denied all knowledge,although looking back it was fairly obvious I was the guilty party.

The waddle home was fairly painful.

Also, have I fulfilled my paragraph obligations?

Poo pants, poo pants, nah, nah nah.