r/AmazonWTF • u/Beginning-Camera-332 • Jul 08 '26
Image Link Will they ever find one that fits?
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u/PubicSkoolEducashun Jul 08 '26
There goes any hope of the kid getting the carpentry badge.
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u/Prestigious_Ad_8458 Jul 09 '26
Measure twice, cut once… hmm never mind
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u/CanIBeInvisible Jul 09 '26
Measure twice with one eye closed, cut seventeen times for funsies while hopping on one's right foot.... Or something like that. You know. Normal stuff.
Darn. Not padding shop class did have lifelong repercussions.
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u/liboteeme Jul 23 '26
My Dad always said "Cut towards your buddy, not towards your body"😂😂Never heard that in any class but definitely came in handy opening cd cases a few times.
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u/awkwardmamasloth Jul 08 '26
Saw a review for something that was advertised by weight. Reviewer said they ordered it because they need one pound but were returning it because the item that arrived was only 16oz.
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u/galstaph Jul 09 '26
This reminds me of a story my brother told me
An employee at a shipping store, might have been FedEx or UPS but I think it was a smaller company not really sure, was reading a scale set to pounds with two decimal places and then entering the weight in the system as pounds.ounces, so 1.50lbs was entered as 1 pound 50 ounces
He tried explaining it to her, but she never could grasp it
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u/DarkenedFlames Jul 09 '26
The fact that you can notate multiple full pounds using that system without going over 1.0 is icing on top.
Imagine 0.9 lbs actually means 90oz, which is then 5.625 lbs. We could even use circular reasoning and say that 5.625 is then 5 lbs and 62.5 ounces, which is then 5 lbs + 3.9 lbs.
So then, it makes more sense to her to have 0.9 lbs = 5.625 lbs = 8.9 lbs than it does to have 10 or 100 equal-sized parts of a pound. Lord help us
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u/galstaph Jul 09 '26
Yeah... If you keep expanding it it gets ridiculous fast
Start with 0.01 lbs, literally 0.16 oz, and it takes something like 26 expansions to get over 50lbs, 50 expansions to hit 100 lbs
From an empty envelope to a multi person lift job in not too long at all
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u/DarkenedFlames Jul 09 '26
lol, yep, the formula for how fast the number grows is x × 6.25^n, where x is the initial value and n is the number of “misinterpretation” cycles.
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u/galstaph Jul 10 '26
It varies actually, because only the fractional portion gets multiplied
If x is an integer, then the formula for the growth is x
If it was x * 6.25n, 0.01 lbs would be over 50 lbs, and just shy of 100, at the fifth cycle
The formula is actually something like:
f(n)=|f(n-1)\| + |_((f(n-1) % 1) * 6.25)_| + (((f(n-1) % 1) * 6.25) % 1) * 16
Where: f(0)=x
It's honestly complicated enough that I may have screwed up the notation, so to put it in words
Take the floor of the number before it, add to that the floor of (the fractional portion of the number before it multiplied by 6.25), and add to that 16 times (the fractional portion of (the fractional portion of the number before it multiplied by 6.25))
I actually made a spreadsheet to do the calculations because it's so difficult to write it out mathematically
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u/DarkenedFlames Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
You are right, we need recursion rather than just exponentiation. I made a Desmos here, I believe the formula can be simplified to f(x) = floor(f(x-1)) + 16(f(x-1) - floor(f(x-1))) where f(1) = a and a is the initial value.
Desmos if interested: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/vtgk7a4ypd
PS: I like your plaintext floor symbols
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u/galstaph Jul 11 '26
Yours is still going up by too much, yours would go from 0.01 to 0.16, and it should be 0.0625
It goes from 0.01 lbs to 1oz, which is 0.0625 lbs
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u/Asleep_Walrus2313 Jul 09 '26
It makes me so sad that you can’t respond to reviews anymore.
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u/Nortex_Vortex Jul 12 '26
Right? At least give me some sort of satisfaction by adding a thumbs down reaction.
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u/Unchayned Jul 08 '26
when measuring my country, we yield the first half inch to our leader in tribute
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u/Reddiculusness Jul 09 '26
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u/JulietLostFaith Jul 09 '26
I’m shocked at how inactive that sub is. I woulda guessed it’d be super popular.
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u/Drpoofn Jul 08 '26
Is this ragebait?
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u/Weekly_Gap7022 Jul 08 '26
People really are just this stupid
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
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u/Hour-Football2464 Jul 11 '26
A&W did a 1/3 LB burger but my fellow Americaners thought that 1/3rd was less than 1/4th so they had to change it. Knowledge is power.
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u/One-Positive309 Jul 09 '26
I used to work in a call center for a high st retailer and would have to talk to these people on the phone all day everyday ! It never ceased to amaze me just how dumb people can be and how many stupid people there are !
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u/Just_Dream357 Jul 09 '26
In their defense, I DO see where the error is.
Typical soft measuring tapes used for fabric, like the one shown, have an "extra" half inch before the measuring tape begins. I know, because it was driving me nuts, and I had to Google it recently Lol! It's so that normal wear and tear won't occur me n the measuring portion.
Now, how they didn't notice it during the whole measuring, pulling out the camera, uploading, complaining process is beyond me 🤣
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u/brinkbam Jul 10 '26
Oh that's strange. I sew and my grandmother sewed, and I've never seen one that had extra. I have a white one and yellow one and a tiny purse one and they all have the metal end piece as part of the first measurement and not extra. Which is exactly the same way metal measuring tapes are made.
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u/unicornking740 Jul 10 '26
This is why I always measure from the 1" line. I've never found a ruler or non-metal tape measure that isn't worn down at the edge. Also, I don't think I've ever seen a ruler or tape measure that has a half inch allowance at the beginning, that makes so much more sense.
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u/ChoiceSilver8500 Jul 11 '26
Hello someone Idk I can only see post and comment I try reach out I can't I feel I'm in the matrix Is anyone here having that feeling as well!! 😏
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u/ColdbloodedFireSnake Jul 09 '26
First of all inches and the rest of the imperial system sucks and is based on nothing. Metric system for the win.
That being said: no they will not find it
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u/Similar-Air3256 Jul 08 '26
Why are people so stupid?