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ArishMell ยท 70-79, M
Bizarre indeed.
If the main unit has 100 divisions then 700 000 of the former contains 700 000 X 100 = 70 000 000 of the latter.
$70 000 = 7 million cents. $700 000 = 70 million cents. Don't spend 'em all at once.
If a single block of money, of any currency to any division system, then its value is the same whether in base units or its divisions.....
... Until 1971, ยฃ700 Sterling would have given you (700 X 20) = 1400 shillings = (1400 X 12) = 168 000 Pennies. Then the currency went decimal, so ยฃ700 now gives only 70 000 "New Pennies" (now called just "pence" even when plural). Yet it is still ยฃ700.
B-B-B-BUT, look again: Are we missing the point?
The cartoon is showing us something is not being told; as well as the text revealing its own writer needs learn arithmetic, never mind mathematics.
Assuming these are offers, $700 000, yes, albeit in a clumsy form; but 70 000 of what?
Note the queue is for "70 000" something unspecified; but only one person who has stopped, read the signs and thought about the offers.
Or is just a clever catch to mislead us into thinking, like those in the queue, the left-hand teller is letting us have more money than his colleague - or rival - will?
If the main unit has 100 divisions then 700 000 of the former contains 700 000 X 100 = 70 000 000 of the latter.
$70 000 = 7 million cents. $700 000 = 70 million cents. Don't spend 'em all at once.
If a single block of money, of any currency to any division system, then its value is the same whether in base units or its divisions.....
... Until 1971, ยฃ700 Sterling would have given you (700 X 20) = 1400 shillings = (1400 X 12) = 168 000 Pennies. Then the currency went decimal, so ยฃ700 now gives only 70 000 "New Pennies" (now called just "pence" even when plural). Yet it is still ยฃ700.
B-B-B-BUT, look again: Are we missing the point?
The cartoon is showing us something is not being told; as well as the text revealing its own writer needs learn arithmetic, never mind mathematics.
Assuming these are offers, $700 000, yes, albeit in a clumsy form; but 70 000 of what?
Note the queue is for "70 000" something unspecified; but only one person who has stopped, read the signs and thought about the offers.
Or is just a clever catch to mislead us into thinking, like those in the queue, the left-hand teller is letting us have more money than his colleague - or rival - will?
xSiFiGamer2016x ยท 26-30, M
@ArishMell Yeah, that was the confusing part. I had to assume it's $70k, despite not showing the dollar sign.
ArishMell ยท 70-79, M
@xSiFiGamer2016x Mmm! I think that's what the artist intended! :-)
The problem with a hand-me-down quote like that is we don't know its original source, context and point.
The problem with a hand-me-down quote like that is we don't know its original source, context and point.