Topic: Negative numbers are confusing

[idolminds]

Apparently.

But they play the lotto, so math obviously isn't their strong suit.

[Cobra951]

And here I thought Americans were supposed to be the biggest dumb asses on the planet.

[Ghandi]

Stupid people are everywhere. Americans just get picked on the most because they supposedly think that they are the smartest.

Also, we should invent a lottery game with imaginary numbers. Now THAT would yeild confusion.

[WindAndConfusion]

Camelot received dozens of complaints on the first day from players who could not understand how, for example, -5 is higher than -6.

I remember that question from my SATs. I always wondered what kind of dumbass it would take to get it wrong.

[scottws]

Wow, that's horrible.  The funniest part of the story to me is that the clerk agreed that -6 was lower than -8.

[Quemaqua]

"I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher - not lower - than -8 but I'm not having it.

"I think Camelot are giving people the wrong impression - the card doesn't say to look for a colder or warmer temperature, it says to look for a higher or lower number. Six is a lower number than 8. Imagine how many people have been misled."

Quick, someone stab her before she can reproduce.

[Pugnate]

And here I thought Americans were supposed to be the biggest dumb asses on the planet.

I present to you.... Pakistan. They made the title for this place.

haha.

[Xessive]

Apparently.

But they play the lotto, so math obviously isn't their strong suit.

HAhahah Man, the abundance of stupidity in the world never fails to bring grins to our faces

[WindAndConfusion]

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/display.var.1842628.0.0.php

I'VE tried and I've tried, but I still don't see the decimal point of maths.

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What on earth have quadratic equations got to do with the price of fish (or indeed the price of chardonnay)? And in what circumstances am I ever going to feel the need to employ logarithms?

It's hardly likely to crop up when I'm round at the Spar picking up the latest copy of Heat or in the hairdresser's having my roots done, is it?

Note: Heat is a magazine for British women who happen to be idiots.