Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:)

It may be odd, but when you do it every day, it's natural. Today, I bought
a drink. Its price was $1.99. I paid $2.00 and got no change. I never
expected any change. Tomorrow, I might be something that costs $1.37 and
pay $1.50 and get 15c change. I would expect 15 cents change. If I bought
them at the same time, I might pay $3.50 and get 15c change. Unless I was
paying with my eftpos card, in which case I would be debited $1.99, $1.37
and $3.36, respectively. (Most places, though, do thinks in multiples of
5c. It's only the places where you buy in bulk and pay with non-cash, such
as a supermarket, that you tend to get such odd prices.)

(Note: in Australia, it is customary to not tip unless your service is more
than outstanding. I have no idea whether you'd tip in a supermarket in
America, though.)

Tristan

At 11.06 p.m. 21.12.2001 -0500, you wrote:
>My point was that it seems odd not to have a coin for the lowest
>denomination of money in a system.  If a five cent coin is the lowest
>amount one can have, the unit of currency should be redefined as
>something like one vint = $1/20 or somesuch.  Apparently I wasn't very
>clear ;-).
>-M
>
>Nik Taylor wrote:
>Right, I understand revaluation for other currencies, but it seems silly
> > for ours.  Especially at a low ratio like 5:1
> >
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