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Old 04-28-2011, 03:39 PM  
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Originally Posted by WarChild View Post
You're talking about implied multiplication vs explicit in over riding the standard order of operations. There's no consensus on this, however, among even Mathemeticians. So how can you show "proof" of this when there's no agreement?

If you're following the standard order of operations the answer is 288.

in order for something to be True
it must hold for all numbers
substitute the 2 with a variable...say z

and see if you still leave it alone
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