@The Smiling Pony
Yeah I guess I forgot just how expensive wine can be since I don’t drink.

@ZhaoZoharEX
Fancy wines can run for thousands per bottle. Some steak cuts can go for several hundred. Plus things like caviar or truffles.

It’s a lot, but definitely not beyond the realm of possibility.

@ZhaoZoharEX
That’s exactly why we went into all that. It’s either down to the currency’s value, the amount of the meal, or how extremely expensive it all was.

Y’all are talking about the math that went into this and I’m sitting here wondering what the hell kind of dinner for two cost over ten grand? Either this is an absurdly expensive restaurant, the Bit is an extremely low value currency, or someone needs to reevaluate how much food they’re consuming.

Nopony said it was HER generosity.

A perfect demonstration of Rarity only being the element of generosity when the plot requires it for convenience, and she’s just selfish and self absorbed at all other times.

Of course. And if I don’t have any, we’ll just sneak out.

@phoenixacezero
What happened there?

It’s my Hearts and Hooves Day treat to you Rarity, of course I’m paying!

@Softy
(MLP wiki listings for anyone curious)
Price of apples could be handwaved to supply and demand scale. That’s easy. And with bags/bulk, that usually sells at a discount compared to singles for a more appealing offer.

@Brokedownandmadeone
The prices make no sense if compared to our world. We see 1 apple sell for 4 bits, then in a different episode a bag of apples is 3 bits, then an apple pie is 2 bits. (Got these from the MLP wiki).

As for dividing the bit, the Super Squeezy episode refers to cents, which is reasonable enough. Even the name is fine, since “cent” just means “hundred” in Fancy.

@Softy
If they did mean 1/3rd of a cent, I don’t know why they didn’t just use a fraction for that instead. Reads a lot more easily and prevents a ton of confusion. What doesn’t help is that they also added (dollar not cent). So this leans closer toward the understanding “I mean 33 cents (1/3rd of a dollar)”. If they didn’t mean that, then I don’t know what the hell’s going on. Though it would make this post @Nichtraucher and their follow up post math make sense.
As a matter of fact, the initial post that sparked all this @Iron Storm An average cherry is like .99 cents at a Food store. doesn’t make ANY sense if they DID mean a decimal of a cent. Because they may as well have said 1 cent ($0.01) flat if they did mean [nearly] a penny.

For the “fun” of it, I did the math again with better research.
To compare the cherry with hard values and current pricing, cherries are $5.54/lb. Average cherry weighs 3-7 grams (1 lb = 453.592 grams). You’d get about 64.79 cherries per lb. Using that pricing, it’s ~$0.0854 per cherry, which is 1 bit.
Using that, 10529.60 bits = ~$899.22 and 11371.97 = ~$971.16
And I’m realizing now, lord knows how they do portions of a bit since their currency is just a gold coin.

@Brokedownandmadeone
@Iron Storm

No, Nichtauer had it right and Iron Storm is the one off by 2 decimal places.

If 1 bit = 0.33 cents, then 11372 bits ≈ 3752 cents = $37.52

Read up on the story of Verizon Math. People get stupid confused when seeing a decimal number of cents. 0.33 cents is not the same thing as 0.33 dollars; there’s a factor of 100 separating them.

@Cosmas-the-Explorer
Either that or it like that one Hey Arnold episode.

@Iron Storm
Rarity is an upcoming buisnessmare. She might be moderately wealthy now, but I doubt she is wealthy enough for all that. I guess she let the fanciness get to her head.

@Background Pony #B25D
Only the best for Rarity

11k bits!!!
What kind of restaurant they eating at?
Royal Equestrian high elite ???

That’s 8 percent?!

LOUD NOISES!

@Burt R. the Pony Guy
It did the second we saw that HECKIN’ BILL.

I don’t recall this becoming economics class.

@Nichtraucher
To be fair, your math was off for 2. That answer was ~106060

Initial math here @Iron Storm with $0.33/b, it’s ~$3474.76 pre-tax and ~$3752.75 post tax value.
And now that I actually examined your math, @Nichtraucher, you kinda screwed up your values.
1 bit is .33c; 3 bits is = 0.99c (or $1).
300b = ~$100
3000b = ~$1000
9000b = ~$3000

@Nichtraucher You had 1 right but not sure how you got 2 wrong by 2 decimal placements. Simple multiplication (x3 because 3 cherries per $) is 105k and exact is ~106060

@Iron Storm
You didn’t read at all what else I wrote, did you? You read the first line and immediately went defensive.
A calculator doesn’t help if you aren’t feeding it the right equation to solve.

If your math were correct then riddle me this:

Spoiler 1) 3666 cherries. 2) 10.6 mil cherries.
Now explain to me again how 11k bits and 35k $ are of the same value.

@Nichtraucher
No, my math isn’t off. I used a calculator and everything.