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How weak are you at maths?

  • 16-03-2012 11:49PM
    #1
    tebowfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭tebowfan


    or alternatively, how good are your math skills?


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  • #2
    Tox56
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,636 ✭✭✭✭Tox56


    What an oddly phrased question.


  • #3
    LETHAL LADY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭LETHAL LADY


    Is this a test?


  • #4
    trollin trollin trollin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭trollin trollin trollin


    There are three types of people in the world,those who can count and those who can't.


  • #5
    Hasmunch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 946 ✭✭✭Hasmunch


    On a scale of 1 to 10, i like pi


  • #6
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Meth skills are pretty good...it's the spelling that gets me.


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  • #7
    Samich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    I'm good :) I don't get how some people would be able to estimate in their heads, say, 20% of 180. 20% of 200 is 40 so gonna be less than 40. 30*5 = 150 so it's between 30 and 40, so roughly 35.


  • #8
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    tebowfan wrote: »
    or alternatively, how good are your math skills?
    Did you write the title over here and the post in America?


  • #9
    the keen edge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭the keen edge


    I'm real good at maths, check this....

    OK think of a number, any number at all.

    Right so, I bet you thought of the number Friday didn't you?
    Haha....... people always pick Friday.


  • #10
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Samich wrote: »
    I'm good :) I don't get how some people would be able to estimate in their heads, say, 20% of 180. 20% of 200 is 40 so gonna be less than 40. 30*5 = 150 so it's between 30 and 40, so roughly 35.

    20% is a fifth. A tenth just involves knocking off the zero so it's twice 18. No need for estimating.


  • #11
    LenaClaire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭LenaClaire


    42


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  • #12
    Novella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    I'd say I'm average at Maths. I'm definitely a lot better when it comes to letters and words than numbers though.


  • #13
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I assumed I was sh1t at maths when I was in school, as I always failed or barely passed. But then I actually did some work for leaving cert maths and got a B in ordinary level. So my sh1te-ness had just been laziness. I assume, given my leaving, that I'm mediocre at maths.


  • #14
    Inbox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 810 ✭✭✭Inbox


    e is a number too


  • #15
    derfderf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭derfderf


    I'm like a male carol vorderman. Before she was sexy :(


  • #16
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,036 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    I love maths and am reasonably good. Numbers, not letters for me.


  • #17
    EuropeanSon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭EuropeanSon


    I'm awesome at Maths, but then, I do it at college (which isn't to say I wasn't awesome at maths before I came to college) :)


  • #18
    eyescreamcone
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,562 ✭✭✭eyescreamcone


    There are 10 types of people in the world!




    Those that understand the binary system ...







    ... And those that don't !!!
    :)


  • #19
    The Internet Explorer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭The Internet Explorer


    About three fiddy.


  • #20
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    ****ing useless at maths on paper but not too bad in my head. I'm better at words and stuff.

    I think I might have pseudo dyscalculia - it's a disease so I should get pity and free treatment and money for it.


  • #21
    paky
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭paky


    my maths teacher was a psychotic c.unt. i liked maths but she made me hate it and everyone else too


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  • #22
    Bad Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    When I applied myself I was decent enough at maths, when I didn't, I was appalling.

    I don't have a natural aptitude for it.


  • #23
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    I can hardly add or subtract in my head :)


  • #24
    BackScrub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 353 ✭✭BackScrub


    This question again eh?

    If I've told you n times, I've told you n+1 times, I'm brilliant at maths.


  • #25
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    I am good at maths, love the subject as well, but ironically I am crap at calculations, so from 1 to 10 I estimate I am 12.


  • #26
    Canonfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭Canonfan


    To answer OP's question: I am Chinese.:cool:


  • #27
    Zen65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Zen65


    Maths is a philosophical subject, so I found it easy all through school and college.


    Z


  • #28
    snuggles09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 711 ✭✭✭snuggles09


    i tried to work out the other day what 18% of 30,000,000 was ( a euro millions debate i was having with someone) and i nearly had a nosebleed..my brain didnt function right for at least an hour after

    i've even tried a calculator and i still can't work it out properly..in summary, i'm thick at maths


  • #29
    FoxT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,204 ✭✭✭FoxT


    BackScrub wrote: »
    This question again eh?

    If I've told you n times, I've told you n+1 times, I'm brilliant at maths.

    Actually, you are not being sufficiently precise. Did this happen on 2 separate occasions, for a total of 2n+1, or is the total just n+1?

    Is n>0?

    If n= -1, then you've contradicted yourself!


  • #30
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    paky wrote: »
    my maths teacher was a psychotic c.unt. i liked maths but she made me hate it and everyone else too

    A mad mathematician, they don't exist in nature,


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  • #31
    JerryHandbag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    Pretty weak, and proud of it.


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