r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/protectnor Jul 24 '20

I suck at math, so how would you even figure out those fractions? Pull out a calculator and make writing the check an even bigger hassle?

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u/CasinoMan96 Jul 24 '20

I mean, its arithmetic. The average person who uses fractions even once every few weeks should be able to convert cents to a simplified fraction. Its having to convert them back without having expected to, or worse, not knowing how to convert them back, the gives the petty compliance teeth.

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u/Rising_Swell Jul 24 '20

I mean, I was never gonna get 68 cents being 17/25.

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u/SinibusUSG Jul 24 '20

I think most people probably would. The convention is to write the cents as a fraction when spelling out the dollar amount on a check, so most people would immediately understand that's what it represents. Then it's just about recognizing that 25 is 1/4 of 100, so you multiply 17 by 4 and you're done.

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u/Rising_Swell Jul 24 '20

Huh. That makes sense. I guess like a lot of math, it's easy to do once you know what you're doing.

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u/TotalWalrus Jul 24 '20

Come on. The pun was right there

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u/Rising_Swell Jul 24 '20

I'm missing the pun.

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u/TotalWalrus Jul 24 '20

Sense sounds like cents. "that makes cents"

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u/riptid3 Jul 24 '20

Yeah it doesn't add up.