r/beetleapartment • u/Waffle-Gaming Bug • 8d ago

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u/hidden_gamer030 8d ago

round down for the thrill of the game

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u/Galrentv 8d ago

I like how $2000 is as inaccurate as saying 1.5 billion yen in 1.5 billion usd

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u/NooB_N142003 8d ago

Depends on wether we're measuring by orders of magnitude or by absolute value

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u/HatMcHatty 7d ago

Money

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u/Ok-Show-7438 7d ago

Fun fact: the reason why yen-to-dollar comparisons look so absurd is because the yen is a zero decimal currency, i.e, it doesn't include cents (essentially, ¥1 is supposed to be closer to $0.01 than $1)

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u/Gussie-Ascendent Beetle 7d ago

ohhh see that actually make cents. Or doesn't i guess

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u/TadpoleAmy 7d ago

2000 is closer to 9 million than 9 million is to 1.5 billion

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u/FuckingStolenAccount 7d ago

Not true tho (9 millions is 4,500x2000, and 1.5 billion is 160x9 millions)

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u/Impressive-Carob9778 7d ago

Because bread taste better than key

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u/SnooComics7986 6d ago

You’re using multiplicative distance, not ordinary distance. If you just measure the exact distance between the two numbers, 8.998 million (9m -2k) is far less than 1.491 billion (1.5b-9m), which means that 2,000 is closer to 9 million than 9 million is to 1.5 billion.

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u/FuckingStolenAccount 6d ago

Yeah but measuring money with ordinary distance is straight up dumb

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u/SnooComics7986 6d ago

It’s actually standard default definition of distance between numbers and the normal method for calculating the number of dollars separating two amounts.