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Old Sep 17, 2018 | 2:01 pm
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Originally Posted by tmiw
Interesting since I find that the math isn't difficult if you're tipping 20% (move the decimal point one place and double the amount). Of course, it might be more difficult if you want to tip a different amount.
Agreed. I was responding specifically to those posts were rounding their total charge to the dollar. For instance, your bill is 33.21. 20% is ~$6.60. A lot of people will round that up to $7. But some people, including me, will occasionally round that to $6.79 to make their total charge $40.00.

It would be an interesting stat to see how many people in this situation would tip 6.60 and how many $6 or $7.

Last edited by JBord; Sep 18, 2018 at 7:42 am Reason: corrected math
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