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18

sometimes, you just need a laugh

How many times have you just felt like today is just a little too serious? Today, I was reading through some of my favorite blogs, a strong mix of business and humor, and ran across an image that I couldn’t help but share:

fail-owned-verizon-fail

Although I know that creativity and math smarts are not always ‘have one or the other’, but for me, they were. I was never the math whiz, so luckily, they explained the problem below. I would love to see the faces of the Verizon rep that opened that check and had to show it to their supervisor. What would they do? Is it a valid check? More than likely, he was required to send another check, I can’t help but be impressed at the creativity of Mr. Munroe.

Would you accept the check? Looking for a bank person’s answer as well – would this be considered valid assuming the math problem was correct?

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  • http://www.joshchandlerblog.com Josh Chandler

    Now, is this some kind of weird Verizon incentive scheme? I have to say I suck at math too, but this just hilarious on the outset! Great find Kirsten :)

    Josh Chandler’s last blog post..Has Tumblr.com got the true value for niche website creators?

  • http://www.queenofrelationships.com The Queen

    I totally stink at math but this was funny. I think the tellers would have done a double take if they got this at the bank lol

    The Queen’s last blog post..How To Stay Single Forever

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZEBS7JQYNAB65WQVLAUP6FJSXU Geezah

    The check itself is a “win”, but the description underneath it is a “fail”.  First of all, the number is called “pi”; the word “pie” is the name of a round, baked dessert.  Second of all, I don’t know why “i” (which appears in the check twice) was misread as a “2″.  Third of all, the first calculation is only an approximation, not the actual value (why so many are in the habit of writing out sloppy rounded-off decimals when they don’t have to, I don’t know).  The actual answer is 0.002 + -1 + 1 = 0.002.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZEBS7JQYNAB65WQVLAUP6FJSXU Geezah

    By the way, the “0.002″ figure isn’t just random.  Go search the web for “Verizon Math” to learn the whole background story.

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