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Comment by falcor84

5 months ago

>negative numbers of customers

You're being facetious, right? Or is there indeed some definition of customers that allows for negative numbers?

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gcanyon  5 months ago

Referring to the fact that they were apparently taking more returns than sales by the end. So not negative in total, but over a given timeframe. (hence: "by the end")

  • falcor84  5 months ago

    Ah, thanks for clarifying. Reminds me of that joke where a mathematician watches 2 people entering a house and then 3 people leaving it, concluding that there's now -1 people in the house.

    • gcanyon  5 months ago

      I love jokes like that. There's the one where a statistician goes hunting with a friend, and the friend shoots to the left of a target, then to the right, and the statistician excitedly cries, "Got 'em!"