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Old 11-08-2004, 05:57 AM  
Libertine
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Originally posted by Buff
He is out the cap, which has a market price of 10r. He also gave the customer 15r. The customer leaves with the equivalent of 25r.

he still had 10r of the neighbor's real money in his register, which he has to give back to her along with 15r more of his own money. This comes to 25r to the neighbor.

That looks like 50r, unless I'm missing something.
You're missing that he also got 25 from the neighbour, and that the price of the cap isn't what he actually loses on it - although Tolstoy himself apparently also missed that last part.
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