
040 = Anniversary Crazes and Any Cursory Praises
A Problem Squared
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The Importance of Rational Numbers in Restaurants
I got so focused on the fact that if you're allowed to have multiple dishes, so like it works if people can only have it up to one of each dish. People pointed out that you cannot order an irrational number of dishes. So what you can do is assume that all the multiplying numbers are going to be rational numbers. You then give irrational numbers to the menu items. And that works. The assumption I was missing, I didn't stop to think that the multiples are a strict type of number. If you make the menu numbers a different type of number, so one's rational and one's irrational, then you can reverse no matter how many you have in each dish package.
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