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Re: Types of numerals

From:Carsten Becker <carbeck@...>
Date:Friday, January 6, 2006, 16:01
Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Here, they set prices so that you get values like 299.50 > SEK incl value added > tax. Prices are normally given inclusive of VAT; > exceptions include more > expensive household electronics.
When I've been to Sweden in summer 2002 (Linköping area with obligatory trips to Malmö, Stockholm and Gothenburg), I saw prices like e.g. 23.59 SEK at petrol station's shops -- not the petrol price, but the price of things such as beer or ice cream or bread or whatever you can get in such shops. In fact, the only coins they have in Sweden are 1 Krona and 50 Öre. You don't even get back your 50 Öre often. As for getting rid of one and two pence pieces, I wouldn't mind doing that here in the Euro zone as well. It's so annoying that when buying something at a drug store, you will ALWAYS get one cent change because *all* of their prices are X.99 EUR. And then you've got half a dozen pennies in your wallet and cannot get rid of them because hardly anybody accepts them. The same goes for 2 cent pieces. I also wouldn't mind to introduce a 5 Euro coin because you very often get back a 5 Euro bill and the rest in cash[1]. Back when we had the Mark, you didn't get back a 10 DM bill very often but rather two 5 DM coins[2]. There existed 5 DM bills (showing Bettina von Arnim), but they were quite rare. What I had to get used to when the Euro was introduced were the 20 cent coins so that you now had 0.20 as a value in addition, but no 5 EUR piece. Carsten [1] Open wallet, take change, put in bill, turn wallet, open pocket for coins, put in coins, close pocket, close wallet. [2] Open wallet, take change, put in coins, close wallet.

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