Al Today
The Living Force
Throughout the years of being involved with application software, financial applications have been pretty much what I do. In the development cycle, interviews with various departments are performed for information gathering. With the firm knowledge of accounting, the accountants have always been amusing to me. Some programmers would look at my specifications and with their common sense state that the specifications must be wrong. They don’t make sense. They are mathematically incorrect. Some put up resistance to write the program(s) because of their common sense concerns. I then present the following riddle:
There are these 3 men going to a convention. They meet in the hotel lobby. The clerk says the rooms are $30 bucks a night. The 3 guys look at each other and one says: “let’s pitch in $10 bucks apiece for this 1 night for 1 room and save $20 bucks apiece”. So the 3 gentlemen, in agreement, pitch in $10 bucks each and take the elevator up to their one room for the night.
The hotel night manager strolls into the lobby and says to the clerk: “Wait a minute. Convention rates are $25 bucks a night. He then gives $5 to the bellboy to take back to the 3 gentlemen.
In the elevator, the bellboy knows that $5 does not divide equally for the 3 gentlemen. So he keeps $2 for himself and returns $1 to each of the 3 gentlemen.
So here we go… The 3 guys get $1 dollar back, which means the spent $9 apiece for the room.
To summarize:
First off: $10 + $10 + $10 = $30
Getting $1 back each means: $10 – $1 = $9
Therefore the gentlemen paid: $9 + $9 + $9 = $27
And the bellboy kept $2: $27 + $2 = $29
Were is that missing dollar.?.?.?
Makes me think of how we common folk are just freakin ripped off. Banksters, Enron, the current mortgage crisis, derivatives, etc…
There are these 3 men going to a convention. They meet in the hotel lobby. The clerk says the rooms are $30 bucks a night. The 3 guys look at each other and one says: “let’s pitch in $10 bucks apiece for this 1 night for 1 room and save $20 bucks apiece”. So the 3 gentlemen, in agreement, pitch in $10 bucks each and take the elevator up to their one room for the night.
The hotel night manager strolls into the lobby and says to the clerk: “Wait a minute. Convention rates are $25 bucks a night. He then gives $5 to the bellboy to take back to the 3 gentlemen.
In the elevator, the bellboy knows that $5 does not divide equally for the 3 gentlemen. So he keeps $2 for himself and returns $1 to each of the 3 gentlemen.
So here we go… The 3 guys get $1 dollar back, which means the spent $9 apiece for the room.
To summarize:
First off: $10 + $10 + $10 = $30
Getting $1 back each means: $10 – $1 = $9
Therefore the gentlemen paid: $9 + $9 + $9 = $27
And the bellboy kept $2: $27 + $2 = $29
Were is that missing dollar.?.?.?
Makes me think of how we common folk are just freakin ripped off. Banksters, Enron, the current mortgage crisis, derivatives, etc…
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30 - 3 = 27, which is what the hotel gets, - 2 = 25, so there is no missing dollar, the bellboy just got a $2 tip :D
