On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 10:30 AM, D'Arcy Cain <da...@vybenetworks.com> > wrote: > > On 09/19/2017 06:46 AM, Larry Martell wrote: > >> > >> True story - the other day I was in a store and my total was $10.12. I > > > > > > One time I was at a cash with three or four items which were taxable. The > > cashier rung each one up and hit the total button. She turned to me and > > said something like "$23.42 please." She was surprised to see that I was > > already standing there with $23.42 in my hand. "How did you do that" she > > asked. She must have thought it was a magic trick. > > I was just in a clothing store this weekend and there was a rack of > clothes that was 50%. The sales clerk said everything on that rack was > an additional 25% off, so it's 75% off the original price. I asked is > it 75% off the original price or 25% off the 50% of the price. Said > it's the same thing. I said no it's not. She insisted it was. I said > no, let's take a simple example. If it was $100 and it was 75% off it > would be $25. But if it's 50% off and then 25% off that it will be > $37.50. She looked totally dumbfounded. > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > That just seems like a simple logical failure. I'm amazed every day by how many people find that type of thinking difficult. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
