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On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:58:45 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> The girl at the coffee shop had trouble making change today. It get the
> same thing almost every time I am there, a coffee and one of their
> great muffins. It comes to $3.57, and since we don't have pennies here
> anymore it is rounded down to $3.55 She is relatively new there, but
> has been working there for at least 3 weeks. She must have had a brain
> fart today. She could not figure out the change. She tried to do it in
> her head but resorted to a calculator.


That's because she subtracted instead of counting up.


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