"What is the answer to the question of the average inflation rate in Magrathea from year 0 to year 2000?"
Unitary Method
The word “unitary” comes from the word “unit”, which means a single and complete entity. In this method, we find the value of a unit product from the given number of products, and then we solve for the other number of products.
Speed, Time, and Distance
Imagine you and 3 of your friends are planning to go to the playground at 6 in the evening. Your house is one mile away from the playground and one of your friends named Jim must start at 5 pm to reach the playground by walk. The other two friends are 3 miles away.
Profit and Loss
The amount earned or lost on the sale of one or more items is referred to as the profit or loss on that item.
Units and Measurements
Measurements and comparisons are the foundation of science and engineering. We, therefore, need rules that tell us how things are measured and compared. For these measurements and comparisons, we perform certain experiments, and we will need the experiments to set up the devices.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... there was a planet, named Magrathea located in orbit around the twin suns Soulianis and Rahm in the heart of the Horsehead Nebula. The Magratheans were very much interested with economics so since the day they started their calendar (year 0) they were calculating the annual inflation rate. Interestingly, they realized that their annual inflation follows a pattern: every year, the prices increase (f) by a rate which is equal to the last digit of their year: so the prices would increase by 1% in year 1, 2% in year 2, 3% in year 3... More interestingly, the Magratheans were using the hexadecimal system on their calendar, so after year 9 (where the inflation was 9%) year A comes (where the inflation was 10%), then year B (11%), C (12%), D (13%), E (14%), F (15%) and then 10 (with an inflation of 0%). At the end of year 2000 of the Magrathean calendar the chief economists of the country decided to calculate the average inflation rate over these 8192 Magrathean years by asking this question to the Deep Thought computer:
"What is the answer to the question of the average inflation rate in Magrathea from year 0 to year 2000?"
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