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Originally posted by punkworld
There is no "lost profit on the sale", there is only "potential lost profit on the sale".
He might not have sold the cap at all, since actually selling what you want to sell is most definitely not a certainty.
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well, that potential profit is lost because if the client had had a real 25 rupels bill, he would have sold that cap for 10 rupels, so this is no speculation
anyway this is just to have a little fun with the problem, because I am pretty sure tolstoy did not intend for people to start speculating on if we should consider the cap a 10 rupel profit or if we should consider it less than that... he just wanted to know how much he lost considering the cap is worth 10 rupels... so the answer still remains 25 rupels
