Re: [NTLK] repair service

From: Mark (markr13_at_comcast.net)
Date: Sun Jul 13 2003 - 07:45:49 PDT


Of course, the reason the US has not dropped the penny, as has been
threatened many times, is that everyone "knows" that merchants will
always round UP, not down.

Mark

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>If for example the cost of something is $10.01, or $10.02  then you pay
>$10.00 by rounding down, if the cost is $10.03 or $10.04 then you pay
>$10.05. by rounding up to the nearest 5 cents. So if  you can be bothered
>when you buy your petrol you fill up to $??. 02 and $00.02  cents  worth for
>nothing.. See now you've gone destroyed the logic of my previous statement
>that we can have our five cents worth !!!.. Dam.
>
>Allan
>Brisbane
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