@benaar I'm old enough to remember when they struggled with $1 on mechanical pumps, and they fixed it by using a "1" sticker and changing the mechanism slightly.
Which is stupid when the correct answer was "stop selling gas in gallons and start using liters like normal people".
@whybird That was around the time the US passed $1/gal. I have living childhood memory of 69.9¢/gal regular (leaded) gasoline, and 84.9¢/gal unleaded.
The two lowest prices I've ever paid for gas would be CA19.4¢/l in Vancouver, BC in the late 1990s, and (thanks to an idiot running the station incorrectly setting the pumps) US8.8¢/gal in Tulsa a decade ago (it would have been $8.888 if I used a Walmart discount card).
@BalooUriza @benaar All good; in general, it’s not a post from me if there aren’t at least three edits needed.
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@BalooUriza @benaar Love that discount story!
I’m reminded of that guy who couldn’t get his telco to understand that when they quoted “zero point 25 cents” or whatever it was for a cost that was not the same as quoting “$0.25”.
@whybird Also depending on where you bank and where you spend your money you might actually wind up with your bank account denominated in mils. As happened to me when I was running my own trucking company as a sole proprietor, and both PetroCanada and Pacific Pride were billing me in mils, so after I was done with that, my bank account always ended in an effectively unspendable 7₥ for years, since it's legal to round to the nearest cent on wire transactions here.
@BalooUriza @benaar I’ve not heard of mils used that way before. In AU, while you can use whatever you like in calculating the amounts, all billing, banking and electronic transactions round to the nearest cent, and all cash transactions round to the nearest 5¢, and this has been the case for a long time.
Here’s that telco case I mentioned: https://youtu.be/nUpZg-Ua5ao
@whybird There's rules for rounding but the choice whether or not to round is up to the seller and the buyer, with the tiebreaker being what's customary (4 down, 5 up; mils get rounded to the nearest cent, nothing else rounds). With Republicans eliminating the penny without implementing a plan, cash transactions are increasingly becoming Interesting here to say the least.
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