Math Errors

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I stumbled across this awesome towel today (see below). Aaron would love it, because it lists some of the digits of pi. Yes, he's as nerdy as they come, and due to the influence of Tim, Aaron states that pi is his favorite number. I will admit that we have a pi pizza cutter in our kitchen utensil drawer.


 But the marketing gurus got it all wrong here. The cost of the towel (or rather, a set of 2 kitchen towels, mind you) is $29.99. If you are going to charge almost $30 for kitchen towels, why wouldn't you go ahead and set the price at $31.41?




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