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Math Question
I got an oil delivery and the new kid on the truck has poor handwriting.
So I took the numbers the machine printed on the ticket and did the math.
Well my calculater did the math and gave me $XXX.8847 so it has to be rounded off to two decimal places.
My first instinct was 47 is less than half so it would round down to 88
But then I wondered if the numbers round one at a time so the 7 bumps the 4 to 5 and the 5 bumps the 8 to 9.
My question is what is the right way to handle the rounding, because I don't have a clue?
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THE CUCUMBERS NOW WEIGH 50 POUNDS!!!
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88 makes sense to me.
Rounding is necessarily and beneficially imprecise.
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footfootfoot wrote:
THE CUCUMBERS NOW WEIGH 50 POUNDS!!!
I can't wait to hear that reference explained.
No, rly.
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THE CUCUMBERS NOW WEIGH 50 POUNDS!!!
I can't wait to hear that reference explained.
No, rly.
Worth reading the thread:
TL:DR
Back in the day one of our favorite dwellars who has since passed on offered oral sex to whoever could answer a math problem she had: You have 100 pounds of cucumbers that are 99% water. By the end of the day they've dried out and are now only 98% water. How much does the pile of cucumbers now weigh?
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Good times.
Yes they were, very much so.
OK, so 88 it is, thank you very much.
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Thank you, Feet.
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