Real value of FF Miles in terms of a percentage
Apr 27, 2006 | 6:44 pm
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Originally Posted by Mufasa
the real value of a roundtrip plane ticket in terms of a percentage of what the ticket cost.
Apr 28, 2006 | 5:33 am
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Originally Posted by Efrem
Actually, he doesn't. That's a rounding error introduced when you rounded the $909 to whole dollars and the other figures to pennies. If you carry it out to more decimal places, or multiply out the fractions as fractions without converting the intermediate steps to $ amounts, you'll see that it's an exact wash.
