Re: Types of numerals

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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