Re: USAGE: Currencies and -s

Raymond Brown wrote:
> But I remember at the time several Math(s)
> teachers getting up-tight at seeing prices displayed with a decimal point
> followed by a couple of digits with 1/2 appended   :)
Gas prices over here are often given in a similar fashion, the price
followed by 9/10.  I'm not sure why, but it's *always* 9/10.  I know
that the cent was divided further into 10 mils, used for tax purposes,
as the smallest coin ever actually used was the half-cent, so that's why
the 10ths of a cent, but I don't know why it's always 9.

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