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Default Simple foods with local cost factors

On Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at 7:39:08 PM UTC-4, Wild Bill Wharton wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:29:41 -0500, cshenk wrote:
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> > The butter is generally sale priced to 2lbs/4$ so 25cents a stick
> > and we will call it 15cents worth.

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> Don't quit your day job to take up math and cooking.
>
> > .40+1.50+.20+.20+.15=2.45 for the meal or 82 cents split by 3 of us.

>
> ... or mastery of the English language.


What is wrong with his math? Should he have said 0.8166666666666666?