Re: TI-H: Re: y2k[increasingly off topic]


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Re: TI-H: Re: y2k[increasingly off topic]




I could be wrong but isn't a $.001 called a mill like we call a $.01 a cent? 
  I don't think it was ever really an amount that they measured curency in 
though. But it exists

--- "M. Adam Davis" <adavis@ubasics.com> wrote:
 >
 > They count money to the thousands place,
 >
 > $ ###.###
 >
 > And round up to the nearest penny at the end of the
 > transaction.  Of
 > course, they only show $ ###.## on the pump.  I was
 > actually thinking
 > this weekend about this, wondering about the gas
 > stations across the
 > corner from each other advertising the same price...
 >  What if one of
 > them advertised #.##8 instead of the 9?  They might
 > get a few more
 > customers, perhaps enough to cover the loss of the
 > tenth cent...  But
 > the 9 is fixed on every gas station sign I've ever
 > seen.
 >
 > Of course, we all shouldn't care because the
 > mechanism they use to
 > measure the gas isn't accurate enough to know the
 > difference between
 > 1/10 of a cent of gas (which, if the gas is priced
 > $1.309/gal, is .128
 > fluid ounces, or just over an eigth of a fluid
 > ounce).
 >
 > -Adam
 >
 > "Well kids, gas is cheaper than milk, so today we're
 > having amoco
 > ultimate on our cereal..."
 >
 > Paul Kafasis wrote:
 > >
 > > To get even farther off topic, does anyone know
 > how gas stations manage
 > > to get away with charging x.xx and 9/10's of a
 > cent? This seems like
 > > fairly false advertising to me, or at least a very
 > odd practice. Do they
 > > round up, down, or just charge 1.22 a gallon when
 > the sign reads 1.21
 > > 9/10? Anyone have a clue?
 > >
 > > -P
 >
 >


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