@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.

@Iron Storm
Your math is WAY off there.
going with your assumption that 1 bit = .33 cents (times 3)
-> 3b = 1c (times 100)
-> 300b = 1$ (times 10)
-> 3,000b = 10$ (times 3 or 4)
-> 9,000b = 30$ or 12,000 = 40$.
So that bill is actually barely 40$. (I did some rounding with .99 = 1)

From this I get that Rarity went to the date with no money at all and intended to have me pay.

@Cosmas-the-Explorer
Honestly they should just try to split it, that would be the respectable thing and 69 later like this comment

Rarity looks terrified, she went too far with the food. Will her date be generous or will she have to spend a month in jail?

@Ciaran @Power Play
That’s what the heck I’m wondering. This is FAR too high

@Background Pony #AADC
hah
@Thrond
Nope. In Putting Your Hoof Down, a cherry was going to cost 1 bit, he countered with 10 bits, Flutter botched it for 12, and went way too over-priced when he said it’d be 20; then it sold for 2. This is a whole other level of coin pouch gouging.
That price plus others here https://youtu.be/ggcnrtRTQSI?t=153 Fluttershy The Doormat (Putting Your Hoof Down) | MLP: FiM [HD]

Alright I’ll pay, but I better get a “treat” back at the hotel.

@Background Pony #D3A9
It’s the average of the price of a single cherry vs a pound of cherrys.

@Power Play
I guess it would depend on how much the coin would weigh. I know little of the subject, if anything, but the number could either be about the same as shown on the check, or slightly less ridiculous.

@Background Pony #DCC5
Hey, at least he’s honest.

the element of generosity, lol

Or this restaurant is the equivalent of Shakky’s Rip-off Bar.

@ARandomByStander
I guess Jeff Bezos is middle upper class or there’s some kind of a misunderstanding.

EDIT: found the misunderstanding. I read it as upper middle class.