I expressed my displeasure of these tickets at a bar I work at to one of my coworkers. They then pointed out that in Toast POS you can just punch in the total bill and it generates the tip for you

TIL

FYI, most places will just use the total if there's anything wrong with your math (assuming it's at least what you owe) so this is perfectly valid.

Oh that's good to know, I used to do math and then realized I'm probably being an asshole and stopped.

MATH RETURNS BABY!

Remember math? It’s back, in pog form!

$7.83

My method:

• 42.17 + 8.00 = 50.17
• 8 - 1 = 7
• 0.17 - 0.02 = 0.15
• 0.85 + 0.15 = 1.00
• 0.85 - 0.02 = 0.83

Oh I remember pogs. My brother's we're huge into them. I was just a bit too old for that fad to hit me. I was a Garbage Pail kid!

The addition is the hard part though, calculating the tip amount is easy. Can you write in just the tip amount and let them figure it out at the POS?

ω?

I know that constant. It has something to do with imaginary numbers if I remember correctly. Right?

Three cents to $42.20

Eighty cents to $43.00

Seven dollars to $50

Seven eighty-three!

my method: calculator

I used to do calculators for tips, but noticed my mental acuity slipping. I started calculating tips in my head to keep myself sharp

People always say math when they just mean arithmetic.

Perhaps they expected the server to use geometry to come up with the answer...

But the receipt in the OP didnt have any math? They just decided on a total and wrote it down.

Jesus brother, what the hell

I say maths

This is how AIs do math

What's the problem with this method? I figure out tips through mental math, without any paper. This is just explaining how I do that mental math

the nerdiest possible interpretation of a scribbled 00

I'm good at math except after more than one drink. Ngl, I really like it when the bill has a list of percentages and totals to preview. I'd like it even more if we just charged what food and labor cost and got rid of this nonsense though.

This is how I do mental math. Figuring out (100-15)-2 is a lot easier than 100-17

For me 100-20+3 is easier, but yeah

I have a CS degree and a maþ minor. I will unashamedly use my phone calculator in situations like þis. Or if þere's any rush.

Mine:

• ends in not 00, so add whatever makes the ones digit a 9 (7 in this case).
• make the cents even -> .20 (add .03)
• go to 100 (add .80)

I think, anyway. I can mostly just look at it and know.

I say arithmetics

Idk why people don't just give whole number tips. It's so much easier to just add $5 to something

What character are you using for "the"

How do you find it on phone

I saw it Iceland

Because it's easier to have a flat 50 out then 47.15.

Found the Brit.

Don't be that guy.

Not ðe same person, but you can use an Icelandic keyboard for it. If your phone's default doesn't allow it, ðe FUTO keyboard app works

God forbid someone is different

Every system I've used and currently use you enter the tip amount, so writing how much you want to tip is actually fine. Though I'll usually ask for you to write in the total or ask if it's fine if I do. Technically the cc company cares about that line in case of disputes.

Didn't realize my grandfather was alive and we're still balancing checkbooks by hand

Ever heard of cash?

For the general public that's a distinction without a difference

Referred to as a thorn.

Well, the Roman numeral M is 1000, so this is a pretty good tip. Not sure about the rest, but hey I'll take.

Not that one, this ω.

Since ω > n for all natural numbers n, it’s clear that 50^ω is a very big number indeed!

Yeah you did it in the hardest way possible hahaha

Just subtract 17 from 100 to get the cents. 83. There, done. Or at least 100 - 10 - 7

I can't do mental math that easily. I struggle with visualizing it, I think better in multiples of 5, and subtraction is more intuitive to me

Move the decimal one place left and double it for 20%. Do it for the sub total if you prefer not to tip on tax.

Weird, the restaurant I worked at always went with the tip line if there was any discrepancy.

Sadly yes

Yeah but for those of us who actually studied math, it's silly. Rote arithmetic barely qualifies, you hardly even see actual numbers in math except for a handful of single digit integers for exponents, subscripts, coefficients, etc.

It's like calling a golf cart a "sports car".

With all my power as an random Internet peon, I hereby allow every body to be them self, however they want : enjoy and be flamboyant !
I guess with that we can say bigot are a story of the past...(trying to do a joke, hope it went well)
(Keep calling people out <3)

Sacré bleu You mean they stopped producing do 6buck coin ?
/j

Phones have calculators.

Then you wouldn’t need to fill out a receipt like this.