27/09: A breakdown of mathematical proportions.
True story, I was taking a walk about from a few episodes of the Big Bang Theory (thank you Fox and TBS for catching me up on four seasons at warp factor four) because I had a few neighbors on the benches.
One was our resident pimp and the other was a short man with a peculiar dialect of urban slang talking with the neighbor upstairs about car repair. The metropolitan fellow asked the chap upstairs for help on his math. If he (the fellow) had a v6 how much would the new valves be. The guy replied "well at forty bucks a pop (and you'll need six of them) that's about... ah.. hmm" then the fellow on the bench replied "about 180? Yeah that's way less than the two hundred". Upstairs man was doing the addition out loud and "about two-forty" to which the fellow replied "no, that's like two hundred!". This banter went back and for for numbers between 180 to 230. Eventually it was passed that what ever the amount the fellows old mechanic would have done it for a flat hundo.
Interesting.
One was our resident pimp and the other was a short man with a peculiar dialect of urban slang talking with the neighbor upstairs about car repair. The metropolitan fellow asked the chap upstairs for help on his math. If he (the fellow) had a v6 how much would the new valves be. The guy replied "well at forty bucks a pop (and you'll need six of them) that's about... ah.. hmm" then the fellow on the bench replied "about 180? Yeah that's way less than the two hundred". Upstairs man was doing the addition out loud and "about two-forty" to which the fellow replied "no, that's like two hundred!". This banter went back and for for numbers between 180 to 230. Eventually it was passed that what ever the amount the fellows old mechanic would have done it for a flat hundo.
Interesting.