Discount math

Posted by on October 27, 2011 Leave a comment (3) Go to comments

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A negative discount should mean you’d have to pay more!

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  1. Yuri October 27, 2011 at 10:19 am

    Although you raise a valid point, this still seems technically correct.

    In the same way it does not actually list the merchandise but rather the price of merchandise, it merely states the price of the discount. And the price of the discount would indeed be negative.

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  2. NagA October 28, 2011 at 4:00 am

    Is the negative discount the fail?! instead of the 20% of 65.62 = 2.32 fail?

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  3. allo October 31, 2011 at 2:08 pm

    i think the discount is added as negative value, which is correct. The discount itself is a positive value not shown there.

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