Mel Brooks reference?
I don’t think it was meant to be. Check out the prior conversation with math references:
Stylin19A - 3 guys rent a hotel room for an all nite poker game.
Room is 30 bucks and each guy kicks in 10 bucks.
Later in the evening, clerk realizes he gave them a 25 room and gives the bellhop 5 bucks to be returned to the 3 guys.
Bell-hop keeps two bucks and returns 3 bucks. Instead of 10 bucks, each guy as now paid 9 bucks, which is 27 bucks. Bell-hop kept 2 which is 29 bucks total. Where’d the 30th dollar go ?
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Kalam - Your problem is imaginary. The issue you project is combining addition with subtraction to come up with the discrepancy. Simply, addition to addition, 25 bucks + 3 bucks (1 for each person who paid the original amount) + 2 bucks that the bell-hop kept = the 30 bucks that was the originally paid amount.
I can get to 11 fingers on my hands with the same combination of addition subtraction. First hand - count - 1,2,3,4,5. Second hand - reverse - 10,9,8,7,6. Now add the last digits and “Bingo” 5 + 6 = 11 fingers.
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stylin19A - you just shot the wind out of my saddle..next you’re probably going to call me when I mix metaphors.
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Kalam - Yeah, but the example I used is great material when the grand kids are little. So I didn’t just drop a bomb without providing some compensation.
You decide?
not sure where I stole it from...
norm crosby ad irwin corey were my unofficially official mentors.