The cost of this order plan is linear in price, and the associated line must form a segment of the piecewise linear concave envelope.

Picture a group of tired (owling starts about an hour before dawn and the last birds counted are gleaned from the merest traces of daylight), red-faced and pink-handed (worse when the count day is gray, snowy and the temperature is below freezing), be-booted and de-downed, (piles of hats, coats and gloves cover the beds in the makeshift cloakroom) men, women and children bunched together in a living room waiting to contribute their numbers to the total.

While other people look on with confused and strange looks, bronies are free to talk about a great show and brohoof all day long (A brohoof is a fist pump between bronies and/or pegasistahs).

That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.