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HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

You don’t know how much you need to pay for it if you only know the price of 1kg but you buy half a kilo.

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Norgur@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Erm... How the frick do you think our price tags look like?

https://www.derwesten.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2022/06/2013-12-21-Rewe-cut.jpg?w=1200

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- HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Rewe also sells products by weight (mainly unpackaged fruits and vegetables).
  
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Agrivar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
…do you not understand how basic math works?

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- HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  …do you not understand how basic math works?
  
  I do, actually. My whole point was that you need basic maths in your everyday life even though you have a calculator on your phone. You jumped right into the 6th comment in this thread without reading what this is about, didn’t you?
  
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  - Norgur@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Can we just fir half a second point out that the original comment was that the use of the real Pi (3.14...) is a great opportunity to teach pupils how to use a calculator for numbers like Pi.
    
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