Scientists successfully split the bill

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/52324

 

Except:

"Taking into consideration the fact that [mathematical physicist] Hideo [Akuri]'s Cajun Chicken Littles were primarily made up of dark matter, the waitress's low kinetic energy, above-average mass, and weak attractive force, we devised a formula in which we moved the subtotal's decimal point one place to the left," Dreyfuss said.

 

 

I love The Onion.

[swansont]

I'm impressed. Anything more complex than the two-body-at-lunch problem was considered insolvable.

[Pangloss]

Douglas Adams had an amusing solution to this called "bistro math".

[ecoli]

Douglas Adams had an amusing solution to this called "bistro math".

 

Owing to the fact that the rules of mathematics work differently on a waiter's cheque pad.