Funny Pictures Thread. It begins again

redthirtyone

redthirtyone

Not sure what you're thinking of - but no Price Choppers in KS. They're all in the northeast & upstate NY.

Edit: Looks like it's both. But the ones I remember were the ones around western MA & Albany the summer I spent in the Berkshires teaching baseball to uncoordinated privileged jewish kids.
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

They didn't move the sign, it's mounted on the same pole the others were stolen from. There was another highway in Colorado that had a "Mile 69" marker that was stolen constantly, they changed it to "68.5."
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Even if you argue that 0.9999... is less than 1 (which it isn't), the amount of distance between 1 mile and 0.999... miles would be so infinitesimal as to make moving the sign unnecessary because the signpost is at least an inch in diameter.
 
blotsfan

blotsfan

Since that thread is locked I'll explain it simply. To compare numbers you look at the placeholders until you find one that is bigger. 1 has a 1 in the ones place. .999... has a 0. Therefore 1>.999...
 
CrimsonSoul

CrimsonSoul

I saw a shirt for 97 bucks I borrowed 50 from my mom and 50 from my dad
50+50=100
I bought the shirt and had 3 bucks change and I kept it all now I owe my mom 50 and my dad 50
50+50=100 + my 3= 103... FREE MONEY!
 
Piotyr

Piotyr

ThatNickGuy said:
Yeah, I, um, I don't understand the math in that, either. I don't understand where the $1 disappeared to. :(
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There was never "Your $1". It was Dad's 50 and Mom's 50, and after you gave them 1 back each, you owe them 98 total. The other dollar isn't extra.
 
Eriol

Eriol

CrimsonSoul said:
I saw a shirt for 97 bucks I borrowed 50 from my mom and 50 from my dad
50+50=100
I bought the shirt and had 3 bucks change and I kept it all now I owe my mom 50 and my dad 50
50+50=100 + my 3= 103... FREE MONEY!
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Exactly. The original problem is just mis-stating it.

For those that still don't get it:
$50 + $50 = $100
$50 + $50 = $97 + $3
$49 + $49 = $97 + $1 (you gave $2 to the "other side" of the equation... kind of)

Whereas the "problem" said:
$49 + $49 = $98 + $1 = $99
This is the trick. The $1 needs to be paired with the $97 COST, not the sum of the other side. If you're giving perfect change, think of it as a "if they're each paying equally, Mom & Dad, how much did each pay?"

$97 + $3 = $50 + $50
$97 = ($50 - $3/2) + ($50 - $3/2)
$97 = $48.50 + $48.50

You SHOULD have given them each $1.50 back, not $1.


I hope this makes it clearer, and not worse.
 
Gusto

Gusto

What gets really annoying is when people use that kind of "math", along with a high-pressure situation, to steal money from unsuspecting cashiers.

 
fade

fade

Staff member
Yeah that shirt one irritates me. It's a classic apples to oranges comparison. How could you add what you have to what you owe? They're not the same thing anymore than the amount of gas is in your tank is the same as the amount in the pump.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

Thinking about that sign: if they make it mile 419.9999, they would have to move the sign about a half a foot closer to mile marker 419.0.

1/10 mile = 528 feet
1/100 mile = 52 feet, 9.6 inches
1/1,000 mile = 5 feet, 3.4 inches (this saddens me for a reason which I do not wish to divulge.)
1/10,000 mile = 6.3 inches
1/100,000 mile = 0.6 inches (about 10/16th of an inch)
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Last night in MWO I got into a discussion in Teamspeak where we decided that the Shadowhawk is definitely a hipster mech, to the point where it needs to have a giant armored trilby riveted to the top of the cockpit.
 
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fade

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It does irritate the piss out of me when someone has to point out that Christmas traditions started out as pagan ones. Who cares? What difference does it make to anything?
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
Last night in MWO I got into a discussion in Teamspeak where we decided that the Shadowhawk is definitely a hipster mech, to the point where it needs to have a giant armored trilby riveted to the top of the cockpit.
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Hey if I wasn't picking a warhammer, I was picking the shadowhawk.

--Patrick
 
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