TWCP OTD (The Who Cares Puzzle Of The Day) - 1st of February, 2017
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ACCOUNTANTS? REALLY? Three accountant checked in a small hotel, evening before some conference. The boy - replacing the clerk momentarily - charged them $30 ($10 each)... However a few minutes later - after the clerk got back - he brought the accountants $5 as a special discount for the conference... The accountants decided to keep $1 each and giving the remaining $2 to the boy... Later that evening, they wanted to write down their expenses - as good accountant should, but was unable the get the right amount... As each of them paid $10 originally and got back $1 later, they write down their expenses like this: 3 * $9 + $2 (the $2 they gave to the boy), but that sums up to $29 only!!! What's wrong here?
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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ACCOUNTANTS? REALLY? Three accountant checked in a small hotel, evening before some conference. The boy - replacing the clerk momentarily - charged them $30 ($10 each)... However a few minutes later - after the clerk got back - he brought the accountants $5 as a special discount for the conference... The accountants decided to keep $1 each and giving the remaining $2 to the boy... Later that evening, they wanted to write down their expenses - as good accountant should, but was unable the get the right amount... As each of them paid $10 originally and got back $1 later, they write down their expenses like this: 3 * $9 + $2 (the $2 they gave to the boy), but that sums up to $29 only!!! What's wrong here?
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
:sigh: Are we reduced to teaching maths to accountants? $30 - original payment for all three accountants $25 - payment for all three accountants for conference $5 - refund The expenses should be written as follows: Conference - $25/3 = $8.33 (or for one accountant - $8.34) Tip - $2/3 = $0.67 (or for one accountant = $0.66) This adds up to $9 per accountant, which is what each of them actually paid out-of-pocket.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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ACCOUNTANTS? REALLY? Three accountant checked in a small hotel, evening before some conference. The boy - replacing the clerk momentarily - charged them $30 ($10 each)... However a few minutes later - after the clerk got back - he brought the accountants $5 as a special discount for the conference... The accountants decided to keep $1 each and giving the remaining $2 to the boy... Later that evening, they wanted to write down their expenses - as good accountant should, but was unable the get the right amount... As each of them paid $10 originally and got back $1 later, they write down their expenses like this: 3 * $9 + $2 (the $2 they gave to the boy), but that sums up to $29 only!!! What's wrong here?
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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ACCOUNTANTS? REALLY? Three accountant checked in a small hotel, evening before some conference. The boy - replacing the clerk momentarily - charged them $30 ($10 each)... However a few minutes later - after the clerk got back - he brought the accountants $5 as a special discount for the conference... The accountants decided to keep $1 each and giving the remaining $2 to the boy... Later that evening, they wanted to write down their expenses - as good accountant should, but was unable the get the right amount... As each of them paid $10 originally and got back $1 later, they write down their expenses like this: 3 * $9 + $2 (the $2 they gave to the boy), but that sums up to $29 only!!! What's wrong here?
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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<Jedi hand-wave> These aren't the accountants you're looking for.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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ACCOUNTANTS? REALLY? Three accountant checked in a small hotel, evening before some conference. The boy - replacing the clerk momentarily - charged them $30 ($10 each)... However a few minutes later - after the clerk got back - he brought the accountants $5 as a special discount for the conference... The accountants decided to keep $1 each and giving the remaining $2 to the boy... Later that evening, they wanted to write down their expenses - as good accountant should, but was unable the get the right amount... As each of them paid $10 originally and got back $1 later, they write down their expenses like this: 3 * $9 + $2 (the $2 they gave to the boy), but that sums up to $29 only!!! What's wrong here?
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Sorry,but our only accountant here ran off to become a politician. :-D
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns. -
Sorry,but our only accountant here ran off to become a politician. :-D
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.And I'm not sure he can help you anyway... :laugh:
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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ACCOUNTANTS? REALLY? Three accountant checked in a small hotel, evening before some conference. The boy - replacing the clerk momentarily - charged them $30 ($10 each)... However a few minutes later - after the clerk got back - he brought the accountants $5 as a special discount for the conference... The accountants decided to keep $1 each and giving the remaining $2 to the boy... Later that evening, they wanted to write down their expenses - as good accountant should, but was unable the get the right amount... As each of them paid $10 originally and got back $1 later, they write down their expenses like this: 3 * $9 + $2 (the $2 they gave to the boy), but that sums up to $29 only!!! What's wrong here?
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
What's wrong here?
It's 2017 and you're still posting this.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
What's wrong here?
It's 2017 and you're still posting this.
Still? Just started :laugh:
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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ACCOUNTANTS? REALLY? Three accountant checked in a small hotel, evening before some conference. The boy - replacing the clerk momentarily - charged them $30 ($10 each)... However a few minutes later - after the clerk got back - he brought the accountants $5 as a special discount for the conference... The accountants decided to keep $1 each and giving the remaining $2 to the boy... Later that evening, they wanted to write down their expenses - as good accountant should, but was unable the get the right amount... As each of them paid $10 originally and got back $1 later, they write down their expenses like this: 3 * $9 + $2 (the $2 they gave to the boy), but that sums up to $29 only!!! What's wrong here?
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
You're adding the $2 to the debit column twice. [edit: the word "debit" wouldn't come to mind, earlier]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Still? Just started :laugh:
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
You forgot to add some arcane rules like that movie thing that is (mercifully) posted less often now. These rules have to be hidden well enough, so that we can pounce on any newcomer who inadvertently violates them. Better still, make up some arbitrary new rule each time. Like Calvinball.
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You forgot to add some arcane rules like that movie thing that is (mercifully) posted less often now. These rules have to be hidden well enough, so that we can pounce on any newcomer who inadvertently violates them. Better still, make up some arbitrary new rule each time. Like Calvinball.
There are rules so hidden, that even I can't find them now...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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ACCOUNTANTS? REALLY? Three accountant checked in a small hotel, evening before some conference. The boy - replacing the clerk momentarily - charged them $30 ($10 each)... However a few minutes later - after the clerk got back - he brought the accountants $5 as a special discount for the conference... The accountants decided to keep $1 each and giving the remaining $2 to the boy... Later that evening, they wanted to write down their expenses - as good accountant should, but was unable the get the right amount... As each of them paid $10 originally and got back $1 later, they write down their expenses like this: 3 * $9 + $2 (the $2 they gave to the boy), but that sums up to $29 only!!! What's wrong here?
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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