[night_sentinel]

Originally Posted by Academus

Spoiler:

Recall episode 1. Everyone starts with 25k points but the nominal starting balance is 30k, so Saki needs to get 4600 - 5500 points in order to achieve +/- 0.
The rest is self explanatory. Saki nets 5500 points in the first half and 4600 in the second half, so in this sense she pulls out two +/- 0 in a row.
The reply states that another intrepretation is to treat it as a continuous game, and Saki gets +10100 points, which would put her in the positive side.
Since the manga explicitly states two consecutive +/- 0, it seems the author goes with the first calculation.

Spoiler for scores:

That's even worse... if we treat the two hanchans separately that meant as you've said Saki got two consecutive +/- zero.

Beside that I've noticed something else its not just two consecutive zero's either ...
Notice that both Saki's score is exactly the upper boundary and the lower boundary limit of achieving +/- zero. I wonder if that is deliberate?

Using a modification of my previous post:
Since you get +/- zero if you score range between 4600 - 5500

First hanchan
Saki started with 99600 → 105100; thus she has + 5,500
And Saki got the upper boundary limit of scoring +/- zero (5,500) so first hanchan Saki broke even.

Second hanchan
Saki started with 105100 → 109700; thus she has +4,600
And now Saki got the lower boundary limit of scoring +/- zero (4,600) so second hanchan, Saki also broke even.

In a twisted way its also breaking even using the scale 4600 - 5500 since if you took both the lowest and highest value and average it you'll get the mean (exact middle point).

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What mirror world I have fallen into?
I'm getting more scared of Saki than of Teru...