Percents

One of the jokes about being Jewish is that we know the word "Sale" in every language. In Norway, it's really not that difficult. The word is, get ready..."Salg." It doesn't mean that the prices were any cheaper...everything was really expensive.

Maybe this is the reason why they were more expensive, maybe they were nationally stupid, and maybe they have a different math system than we do. Maybe I'm the only nerd in the country. I don't know. All I know is that all of the stores who had a sale going on made the same mistake. The signs all read, "SALG! �50%!"

Well, no, they weren't all fifty percent, generally it was lower, but the point was that they all had a division sign. I told my Norwegian friends about this, but none of them seemed to see what was so odd. None of them had noticed.

I had to take a calculator to show them.

"What are you talking about?"

"Look, let's say this shirt costs 100 Kroner, right?"

"Fine."

"OK, look. 100 divided by 50 percent is...150 Kroner."

"What?"

I couldn't believe I was discussing this with intelligent college kids.

"Look, any positive number, multiplied by a decimal, decreases. If it is divided, like in the signs here, the number gets higher."

"Hm. Whatever."

"Well, no, is there is this the practice here? Do they raise the prices as part of their 'salgs?'"

"No, Michael."

"Is it a Norwegian thing? Like how the division signs are backwards in Israel?"

"I don't think so."

"So why..."

"You have to understand one thing, Michael. NOBODY CARES."

I do have to start getting that one through my head.

Get me outa here!!!

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