What's the easiest math equation you've seen a Khmer use a calculator to solve?
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What's the easiest math equation you've seen a Khmer use a calculator to solve?
I dropped off my laundry the other day and requested the $2 per kilo express and individual service (because I don't trust them to give me back all my clothes if they mix them with other people's clothes or keep them overnight).
The clerk weighed my clothes. 2.5 kilos.
Then he typed 2.5 x 2 into the calculator and wrote up the total as $5.
The clerk weighed my clothes. 2.5 kilos.
Then he typed 2.5 x 2 into the calculator and wrote up the total as $5.
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Nice. I think you might win this.violet wrote:4000 + 1000 just the other day.
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Calculating the change for a 10-Dollar bill. I paid with a 20....... Same in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand.
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On the opposite - minutes ago i bought a bag of random shit at one of the mini marts on 172 on my way home. Friendly old lady counted it all in her head, twice. To be fair some of it didn't have price tags but 12 bucks sounded right... I've gotta think of what the most egregious calculator use has been in memory.
* forgot to mention that after she counted it all in riel out loud twice, she just punched in 12 on the calculator.
* forgot to mention that after she counted it all in riel out loud twice, she just punched in 12 on the calculator.
I bought 5 metres of rope the other day and they weighed it to get the price.
Fuck me dead. Sell it by the metres you fucking idiots.
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Fuck me dead. Sell it by the metres you fucking idiots.
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What the hell is 'roap'?ricecakes wrote:I bought 5 metres of roap the other day and they weighed it to get the price.
Fuck me dead. Sell it by the metres you fucking idiots.
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Tendered 5 bucks for a 2 buck coffee. The calculator told them 3 bucks change. Not bad!
Just a note that this problem runs the length and bredth of the country. I just don't believe so many cannot master simple math. Are they just afraid of making a mistake?
Just a note that this problem runs the length and bredth of the country. I just don't believe so many cannot master simple math. Are they just afraid of making a mistake?
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To be fair the words used for numbers here don't lend themselves to quick mental arithmetic.
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I do not think that is an excuse. From what I see from my girlfriend's kids, basic maths is just not being taught.Lucky Lucan wrote:To be fair the words used for numbers here don't lend themselves to quick mental arithmetic.
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I will actually pay thatviolet wrote:What you hang your sope on
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