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After starting a new job where I was hired to program an online photo uploading and e-commerce site, I figured it was time to learn to program in PHP. So I got a book and read it for a couple of weeks and then pieced the site together. I’m sure I made hundreds of mistakes, but I’m still not good enough to realize it yet.

But anyway, today I will tell you about a different site, that is much more simple, but was still a fun programming project for a beginner like me.

It’s called PayPal Fee Calculator and it can be used to tell you how much to charge someone thru PayPal to make sure that you get a certain amount.

For instance say you want to get $100 from someone. If you just charge them $100, you will actually only end up with $96.50 because PayPal takes out their fees first.

But, if you enter $100 into my site, it will tell you how much to charge in order to be left with $100 after PayPal’s fees are taken, which happens to be $103.29 in this case.

You can also ask how much will be taken out of a $100 transaction, which is where I got the $96.50 amount earlier.

Like I said it’s really simple and took less than a day to put together, but it was fun for a beginner programmer like me.

So bookmark it and use it the next time you need to send a PayPal money request to someone.

I wish you folks would post more about Visual Mathematician..Oh Yes, I took the test and I too suddenly became the smartest son of bitch on the planet with an astronomical score of 131.I mean for real folks..I feel like I am the man. Just give me a tape measure, a little google, and a few hours and I will figure the length of the third side of that triangle for ya. Actually I had answers for that question a hell of alot earlier but unfortunately none of them were listed in the multiple choice. Good Gawd I’m telling you.. I thank the lord for this test I’m 54 and I actually learned how to square a right triangle today.(after several hours of course).But really folks I have read all the post for this IQ test and really enjoyed reading them and found no drastic grammar or spelling errors. So I am most pround to be among the scholars, so aptly named Visual Mathematicians,who have posted and boasted on this thread..AND NOW that I have found my newly discovered intelligence I am going to write Social Security and demand a few more bucks on my monthly disability check, and while I’m at it I think the State should bump up my foodstamps just a tad..It will take a lot more food and drink to nourish this Superior Mind that I posses now..(should I be able to find it)..
So in the famous words of the late Elvis Presley (who by the way just informed me that he, too, was a Vitual Matematician)…Thank ya very much!