🚀 go-pugleaf

Gee, I knew I'd end up feeling stupid, and still do, because I don't
know why .2 becomes 4 rather than .4? Which is why my answer was
closer to 13 than 1300.. Which rule have I forgotton here?

Cheers, Ian

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:14:54 -0700, John <seetheplane@my.sig> wrote:

>I got realy bad grades in algebra back in middle school 40 years ago and I have
>not taken a math class since then - but I can easiely see that the answer is
>1296
>
>(9x4)^2 = 1296
>
>On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:05:51 +1000, Ian George <egroegnai@yugswen.moc> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>This question is probably going to fall into the category of extremely
>>stupid in this forum, but I am working through a financial course at
>>the moment, and it is starting to test my less than perfect grasp of
>>basic algebra, so I am doing a bit of refresher work.
>>
>>I am trying to evaluate (3^2 .2^2)^2
>>
>>to which my text is telling me the answer should be 1296, and to my
>>immense frustration I can't come up with anything remotely resembling
>>that answer.
>>
>>Any chance someone here can point out what I'm missing?
>>
>>TIA, Ian
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