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When a Mathmatician Gets Pissed

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I remember doing this stuff in Calculus in my first year university class... I must say way to stick it to them

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And here's why he was pissed...

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bhallg2k wrote:And here's why he was pissed...

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hahaha, what a bunch of idiots.

The funniest part was when he was talking to the girl:

Caller: do you understand that there is a difference between a dollar and a penny?

Rep: yes

C: - do you understand that there is a difference between half-a-dollar and half-a-penny?

R: yes.

C: do you understand that there is a difference between $0.002 and 0.00 2cents?

R: NO!
....

then finally she said..."well I'm not a mathematician".....yeah, you think!
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:lol:
is that
0.002-1+2 (~)
or i forgot everything lol
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Tom
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What the hell? clearly the answer is 71.786 cents, rounded to 72 cents
That's the answer or I've missed something, it doesn't take a mathmatician. 0.002 cents/kilobyte, 35893 kilobytes must therefore be 72
0.002*35893=71.786 cents

How do people not get that? what the hell is that guy on about 2 tenths of a cent for and difference of opinion. I would get pissed off too if I had to speak to these people.

Doh, stupid me completely forgot about cents and rounded it to 2 sig figs like I've been taught. I've edited it now.
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Stay in school.

He should be charged 72 cents, lucky bastard. He needs to go down to the closest Verizon store and show them on paper.
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Tom wrote:
How do people not get that? what the hell is that guy on about 2 tenths of a cent for and difference of opinion. I would get pissed off too if I had to speak to these people.
I remember being in this coffee shop where a similar thing happened. Most of the items were expressed in dollars, however, the owner had placed the symbol for cents next to the figure...so you could see, say, a cookie for 0.99c (instead of $0.99).However,things like that I can understand. It is an obvious mistake.

This on the other hand is just sheer stupidity. It is one thing to overlook something, and a completely different when they're trying to argue that they're right.
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