Old Man Yells At Cloud

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On 19/09/2017 17:26, Larry Martell wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 10:30 AM, D'Arcy Cain <darcy at 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.
> 

Most people (in the general population, doubtless not in this group) 
seem to be confused about things like that.

Your house has gone down in value by 30% this year; it will need to 
increase by 43% to be back where it was last year, not 30%.

Value-Added-Tax in the UK increased from 17.5% to 20%, everyone was 
talking about a 2.5% increase in prices. The increase would actually be 
just over 2.1% (a £100 ex-VAT price increases from £117.50 to £120.00).

Etc.


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