Re: TI-H: Re: y2k[increasingly off topic]
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Re: TI-H: Re: y2k[increasingly off topic]
In a message dated 12/30/1999 4:15:46 PM Eastern Standard Time,
punkrock17@home.net writes:
<< 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?
>>
Yeah, they do that to make it look a cent cheaper, kinda like stores that
sell everything for $x.99, but do the math, and they usually charge you that
extra 1/10 of a cent.
Jeff Barrett
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