Quite an interesting solution (or not) to an everyday problem š
Engineer: Remember to tip 18%, everybody.
Mathematician: Is that 18% of the pre-tax total, or of the total with tax?
Physicist: You know, itās simpler if we assume the system doesnāt have tax.
Computer Scientist: But it does have tax.
Physicist: Sure, but the numbers work out more cleanly if we donāt pay tax and tip. Itās a pretty small error term. Letās not complicate things unnecessarily.
Engineer: What you call a āsmall error,ā I call a ācollapsed bridge.ā
Economist: Forget it. Taxes are inefficient, anyway. They create deadweight loss.
Mathematician: There you go againā¦
Economist: I mean it! If there were no taxes, I would have ordered a second soda.
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