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25 Nov 2007, 9:27 am

A while back I got the DS game " More Brain Training from Dr Kawashima", and I have rather enjoyed playing it. However, recently while playing the missing symbol game on hard mode, I've noticed that it is providing impossible questions with wrong answers. 2 examples:

8 (space) 2 (space) 2 = 10. In this game, you are supposed to put in either *, /, + or - to reach a viable, accurate result. For this one, the answer it provided, when I was unable to find any way of accurate completing the question as 8 * 2 / 2. That is incredibly wrong.

Another example - 4 (space) 8 (space) 2 = 20. The answer is, again, impossible, and the solution provded is 4 + 8 * 2. Completely and utterly wrong.

Has anyone else had similar experiences with this game?



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25 Nov 2007, 10:08 am

I dunno about the first one. Maybe it's a glitch.

The second one is correct though. You multiply first then add.



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25 Nov 2007, 10:34 am

Zara wrote:
I dunno about the first one. Maybe it's a glitch.

The second one is correct though. You multiply first then add.


Well, that takes my self righteous indignation down a notch. So instead of working it out as 4 + 8 (=12) * 2 = 24, it should be 4 + (8 * 2)?

Is that standard in all mathematics?



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25 Nov 2007, 8:46 pm

Yes. Order of operations is multiplication/division before addition/subtraction regardless of order.

The first one wrong definitely. Comes out to 8 that way.



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01 Dec 2007, 9:33 am

I mostly have problems like my 8 being registered as 78, and such. No biggies, as of yet.


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