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08-12-2019, 01:05 PM | #874 | |
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In a basic sort of way, yes. It's figure total, apply tax, then round. Which, for a race of intuitive mathematicians would be infinitely easier than keeping track of 16 different coins.
I mean the change sections of a cash drawer for a Point-of-Sales system would be a nightmare for those people. Quote:
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Certain adjustments are required for operating as someone with Eidetic Memory in Skarrpornoworld, but it's mostly under the same umbrella. ;D
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08-12-2019, 09:00 PM | #877 |
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1, 3, 11, 37 (or 38) is the optimized four coin system: 4.1 coins on average (compared with 4.7 for the US standard 1, 5, 10, 25 system).
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Of course, adding tax to your nominal total at the point of sale, rather than having it included in the price on the label, is a fairly unusual practice in itself. In the UK it only happens in shops which sell to both VAT-rated and non-VAT-rated customers, which are quite rare (some office supplies vendors, for example), and even they usually have dual labels on each item.
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08-13-2019, 07:10 AM | #879 |
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Intuitive Mathematicians wouldn't see the attraction to wanting two-coin change in the first place. The only appeal there is adding just two numbers, once. But that's effortless for them.
If that species were optimizing, they'd be optimizing something else. Fewest number of coins you had to carry, least weight or volume of coins, etc -- not minimizing arithmetic required. Might even be unlikely that they'd find the two-coin property appealing. As much fun as it might be for human recreational mathematicians, a species that intuits math probably has an entirely different aesthetic. That's assuming they don't do something really weird, like mint coinage based on quaternions so they can value things on a 4D surface, rather than being stuck trying to force comparisons of vectors of values into a single scalar point with a binary yes/no decision, like those primitive Earthlings do. Poor things; no wonder their "governments" are so screwed up. |
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