Whoey on those educators!

The most important digit would be the first, because of all the digits in the string, it most accurately indicates the magnitude of the value!  3*100 = 300, if you have to choose only one digit.

That's my opinion regardless of what they are teaching in high school!

-dtd







[log in to unmask] on 09/28/2001 01:25:00 PM
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cc:      (bcc: David T Darnell/CO/KAIPERM)
Subject:        Re: [HP3000-L] Wildly OT: Simple math question

There was this Mathematics Olympiad Quiz organized when I was in my 7th
grade (1987) and they asked this same question. Only difference is that it
was 6 digit number in that question. No surprises there too that ALL got it
wrong..

The reason why we say 3 as the last digit in this case is because while
writing down the numbers, we usually start putting the ","  starting from
the right most digit and ends in the left most digit (for ex 123456789 will
be represented as 12,34,56,789 or 123,456,789) and hence the reason why they
say that the last digit is the left most digit.

Even in the case of 346.1, the last digit will still remain 3 because we
don't put "," option for digits below 0 or after decimal (however small they
are) and the order still goes from right to left.

HTH
Raghu.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tracy Pierce [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 2:58 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Wildly OT: Simple math question


I wonder what the last digit in 346.1 is?  Must be new math AND new English.

> > The question:
> >         What is the last digit in the number 346?

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