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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by lern_too_spel on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @06:36PM (#39911588)
2+3=5. In general, the weight idea is impossible. For any two items, you can find the LCM in units of the precision of the scale, and then you won't know if they got LCM/a of one or LCM/b of the other.
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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by hot_gril on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @07:02PM (#39911793)
Oh yeah, I mixed up addition and multiplication.
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