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worry

Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:32 am
by macfadyan
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... _confusion



aren't we just great?


and you wonder why I hate people so much.;..

Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 8:20 am
by Adam J Purcell
The 23-year-old, who said she had left school without a maths GCSE, said: "On one of my cards it said I had to find temperatures lower than -8. The numbers I uncovered were -6 and -7 so I thought I had won, and so did the woman in the shop. But when she scanned the card the machine said I hadn't.
It's little wonder that so many people have problems with personal debt then - the more in debt they get, the more money they think they have!

Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 4:57 pm
by tallorder
Don't they teach recreational mathematics in schools anymore? Next you'll be telling me people don't know what a happy prime is! :shock: