• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      6 months ago

      Someone with an expensive calculator probably worked out that it would be more expensive to fight this and just allow it.

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          6 months ago

          The rare sort of Engineer who took classes in Finance and Statistical Analytics who can work out a past-present-future cash flow diagram on a whiteboard in like 5min because he never uses the compound interest factor tables and instead memorized the formulas.