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      03-07-2010, 07:34 AM   #34
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Originally Posted by Spool View Post
Okay i'm Asian, i was born with an abacus in my hand so let me explain...when you encounter a group problem such as this....calculate everything as a whole transaction rather than each individual to avoid confusion.

Let's just say me and my 2 friends pool our money together for the hotel room for a gang bang...well it was only 25 bucks so our group gets 5 dollar back...BUT, let's just leave that 5 bucks aside for now..and come to realize that the 25 bucks we put in was 8.33 cents from each of us...and then we take back another dollar each so that makes it more than 9.33 dollars...per person...times 3 is 28..and the 2 dollars we gave the concierge makes it an even 30...there is no missing dollar, or other confusion...you just have to look at it as a whole transaction and not individual ones.
9.33*3 =/= 28 flat
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