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Calculating Tips with TipKalc
Oh isn't this clever! A developer put together a series of images with pre-calculated tip calculations and bill splits so you could load it onto your iPhoto-compatible iPod as a quick reference. Each of the images offers a bill amount, a 15% and a 20% tip (plus the grand total), and the way you can split the bill and tip between 2, 3, 4, or 5 people. You just use your scroll wheel to move the price to the nearest amount of your bill and all your information is right there for you.
Sure you could build this by yourself, but it would probably take more time and effort than you'd want to put in compared to the reasonable $5 price tag. For those five bucks, you get a lot of nicely designed graphics and all the tip amounts you'll probably ever use.
Thanks, Anthony.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jason von Nieda said 8:37PM on 3-21-2007
__Calculating Tips with YourBrain__
Is it really that hard to do some extremely simple math? Listen, it's really easy to calculate common tips.
Step 1. Move the decimal point one digit to the left. That's 10 percent!
$2.50 becomes $0.250
$15.75 becomes $1.575
$197.43 becomes $19.743
Step 2. Multiply it by 2 for 20% (good!) or add half of it to itself for 15% (cheap!)
I swear, if one of my friends pulled out their iPod to calculate a tip after a meal I might not ever be able to stop laughing.
As for bill splits? That's for the waiter to take care of :)
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Zach Everson said 8:06PM on 3-21-2007
You really have to be an idiot to need a tip calculator.
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Smitty Werbenjaegermanjensen said 6:19PM on 3-21-2007
Or, you could save $5 by using a pencil and paper, or the calculator you probably have built into your cell phone, and save the space on your iPod for music.
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tim said 6:29PM on 3-21-2007
Or you could just calculate the percentage in your head the way all educated people should be able to do. If you can't calculate 20% of something in 5 seconds or less you need to go back to school. TipkKalc is for public school kids, right Steve?
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Anthony Sbarro said 9:04PM on 3-21-2007
This works out really well on the ipod, i liked that it also splits up the bill among 1-5 people too which solves a heck of time.
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DaveTehWave said 7:33PM on 3-21-2007
Looking at the image, it's not cutting the bill evenly between the ppl in the 'party'.
We usually end up paying for our *own* meals. I'm not allowing someone who got the $8.00 pasta and water to fork over more $$$ because I got the $25.00 Steak and had 2 $8.00 beers.
And to reiterate... who can't figure out 15% - 20% tip?
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umijin said 10:53PM on 3-21-2007
If you need a freaking program to calculate tips, you shouldn't be allowed to own an iPod or even go to the restaurant by yourself.
Whatever happened to basic edcuation?
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AlMeister said 11:33PM on 3-21-2007
Where I live, the total tax is 15% (ok, technically it just got lowered to 14%), but for a long time the total tax on your bill was 15%. So the 15% tip is easy to calculate; you just look at the tax part on the bill. Trying NOT to cringe knowing you had to hike the bill about 30% at the end of the evening is the hard part. We almost wished for bad service just so we wouldn't have to tip.
To those who say this thing is silly, they obviously haven't tried to calculate percentages at the end of a very long work week, very late on a friday night with a very large number of Guinnesses swimming around in their head, and then splitting that by dividing the whole damn thing by a number of people that does *not* involve moving a decimal point, whilst trying to determine if that girl you just picked will really look just as good after you've sobered up.
Clever idea I say.
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AlMeister said 11:38PM on 3-21-2007
uhh, "picked UP" I meant to say in my previous post. Leaving the word "up" out makes it sound like the whole thing took place in a brothel...
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Simon Arch said 2:44AM on 3-22-2007
Someone comes up with an interesting little program and all anyone can think to do is slam those who might use it? I think people need to relax a bit here.
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Brakki said 7:33AM on 3-22-2007
What I want to know is why Mac users think it's acceptable to pay for something like this >_>
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