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#76 2007-01-11 09:37:47
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Re: Mental arithmetic making you look bad?
There could also be an extra "unseen" character like a space.
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#77 2007-01-12 18:27:24
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Re: Mental arithmetic making you look bad?
Or, it could be that the enter button was being pressed after the answer was entered.
#78 2007-01-13 03:07:56
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Re: Mental arithmetic making you look bad?
mathsyperson wrote:
Are you sure that you didn't just accidentally type 8 or 0? I've never seen it get its own sums wrong like that before. Did it just happen once or is it being consistent?
It only happened once.
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