Except when you see what the prices are after tax rates, it is very clear they were done intentionally. One room tier literally equates to $1775.98 while others equate to other extremely coincidental things that require some further digging to understand.

And then there's the fact that the Q Drop correlating to the rooms' tax rates (14.95%) leads to Q quoting a passage from the Declaration of Independence. (Like, really? After taxes? That's what it leads to? History geeks, kek.) Another coincidence that is extremely mathematically improbable.

What are the chances those would be the exact numbers for tax & prices after tax if they were just influenced by mostly random economic fluctuations?

• 1/200,000 for the room rates? That's assuming roughly equal chance of each price to the cent between $500 & $2500, the approximate range of hotel room prices. Even more complicated (read "less likely") when weights according to economic trends are factored in.
• 1/100 for the tax rate? D.C. sales tax is 6%. How you get to 14.95% from there, I dunno. But the chances that 1 of Q's 4,000+ posts happens to be the tax rate is about that or even less. I'm being generous.

Put all those coincidences together & multiply the probabilities of them happening, and you get about 1/20,000,000 or less which is a very tiny number.

I wrote a chain of comments digging into it, if you would like to go deeper.

Except when you see what the prices are after tax rates, it is very clear they were done intentionally. One room tier literally equates to $1775.98 while others equate to other extremely coincidental things that require some further digging to understand.

And then there's the fact that the Q Drop correlating to the rooms' tax rates (14.95%) leads to Q quoting a passage from the Declaration of Independence. (Like, really? After taxes? That's what it leads to? History geeks, kek.) Another coincidence that is extremely mathematically improbable.

What are the chances those would be the exact numbers for tax & prices after tax if they were just influenced by mostly random economic fluctuations? 1/200,000 for the room rates? That's assuming roughly equal chance of each price to the cent between $500 & $2500, the approximate range of hotel room prices. Even more complicated (read "less likely") when weights according to economic trends are factored in. 1/100 for the tax rate? D.C. sales tax is 6%. How you get to 14.95% from there, I dunno. But the chances that 1 of Q's 4,000+ posts happens to be the tax rate is about that or even less. I'm being generous. Put all those coincidences together & multiply the probabilities of them happening, and you get about 1/20,000,000 or less which is very tiny number.

I wrote a chain of comments digging into it, if you would like to go deeper.

Except when you see what the prices are after tax rates, it is very clear they were done intentionally. One room tier literally equates to $1775.98 while others equate to other extremely coincidental things that require some further digging to understand.

And then there's the fact that the Q Drop correlating to the rooms' tax rates (14.95%) leads to Q quoting a passage from the Declaration of Independence. (Like, really? After taxes? That's what it leads to? History geeks, kek.) Another coincidence that is extremely mathematically improbable.

What are the chances those would be the exact numbers for tax & prices after tax if they were just influenced by mostly random economic fluctuations? 1/10,000 for the room rates? 1/100 for the tax rate? (I'm being generous.) Put all those coincidences together & multiply the probabilities of them happening, and you get a very tiny number.

I wrote a chain of comments digging into it, if you would like to go deeper.