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Article #166Re: I hate to ask, but
From: Clois Beckwith
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:05
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:05
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Virgil wrote: > In article <12klakh5n2m6764@corp.supernews.com>, > Clois Beckwith <Cherock@ev1.net> wrote: > >> I just missed a Question that was put in this form: >> >> 5 @ 3 >> (L + K) (L - K) >> >> What does the @ symbol mean? and doesn't the L+K and the L-K >> cancel each other out? >> >> Someone told me that you just multiply 5*3 to get 15, that is the >> answer. Is this correct? >> >> I know this sounds simple, but I am stumped.......Any help you can >> provide on this interpretation would be appreciated. Thanks, Clois > > The @ is probaby just a bad attempt at a multiplication symbol. > 5 * 3 is the more common notation. > > And (4 + 1) (4 - 1) is probably what is meant by (L + K) (L - K). Thanks for your input
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X-Google-Thread: 10d67e,5eaa96330c812051 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d67e,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.germany.com!multikabel.net!feed20.multikabel.net!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-03!sn-post-ams-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Clois Beckwith <Cherock@ev1.net> Newsgroups: aus.mathematics Subject: Re: I hate to ask, but Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:05:12 -0600 Organization: HomePC Message-ID: <12kntaq6r5392f7@corp.supernews.com> References: <12klakh5n2m6764@corp.supernews.com> <virgil-E2D224.20262402112006@comcast.dca.giganews.com> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 27