It would be especially nice to see a real-world calculation that includes the cost of fuel.

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The rest of the things that are excluded from calculation of the CPI would all raise it and reflect more accurately the increased cost of living.

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We did not include the cost of marketing and distributing each film in our calculation.

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Small wonder he was motivated to gamble: a quick cost-benefit calculation would have told him the chances of detection were slight compared with the bounties available.

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