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
>
>
=====
BYuCnslr
:-)
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