Gas stations about to have a Y2K problem when prices exceed $9.99 9/10

[baloouriza@social.tulsa.ok.us]

Sorry for the edit spree, I swear I can type.

@whybird @benaar

[baloouriza@social.tulsa.ok.us]

@whybird And US currency actually has a symbol for that.

$0.001 = 0.1¢ = 1₥

@benaar

[baloouriza@social.tulsa.ok.us]

@whybird "You quoted 25 mils, not 25 cents."

@benaar

[baloouriza@social.tulsa.ok.us]

@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.

@benaar

[demallien@mindly.social]

@benaar it’ll be fine. Just like with y2k, when we went through the date and nothing happened , people were just imagining there would be a problem /s

[baloouriza@social.tulsa.ok.us]

@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.

@benaar

[baloouriza@social.tulsa.ok.us]

@whybird Also 0.002¢ would round to $0 here by any measure so I'd say the caller was being generous in not refusing to pay altogether.

@benaar

[robert@rah.social]

@benaar I have bad news from the future: we will just move to $/quart

[johnocfii@twit.social]

@benaar @siracusa I was a senior in high school at first “real” part-time job at a full-service gas station when prices went up over 99 cents a gallon.(1980-1981 timeframe). We set the pump price to the price per 1/2 gallon, and then had to double the amount to charge the customers. Worst part was — at home I had a digital clock, and I’d look at the display, (say, 9:15 am) and immediately double it to think it was 18:30 …

[crankyoldbugger@fosstodon.org]

@JohnOCFII @benaar @siracusa I can remember when it hit 99.9 per gallon. The solution was for the market to switch to metric instead.
Only a temporary solution, though, as it's now $1.80 per litre.

[iamwcr@ruby.social]

@benaar @chockenberry could switch to per Litre like a civilised nation.

[chockenberry@mastodon.social]

@iamwcr @benaar Don’t you mean civilized?

[rconti@c.im]

@dxzdb yeah those signs rarely specify fuel units or currency units. Even where the 9/10 is static you could do 10.1 and 9/10ths of a dime @benaar

[revk@toot.me.uk]

@benaar why do Americans do this 9/10 thing rather than just .9, perhaps even making the .9 smaller to be clear.

Genuinely curious.

[coq@framapiaf.org]

@benaar
Move the dot (in your head).

[bassano@mastodon.social]

@benaar Price it by the quart. Or, god forbid, the litre

[rupertreynolds@hachyderm.io]

@benaar Those 9/10 can go! Nobody needs 5 significant figures in a fuel price.

Will the display show ”1001” instead? If it can't do a decimal point, I'm sure they can put a sticker on the sign

[packeteer@hachyderm.io]

@crankyoldbugger @JohnOCFII @benaar @siracusa $3.30/L in Aus, that's 8.62 USD per Gallon

[crankyoldbugger@fosstodon.org]

@packeteer @JohnOCFII @benaar @siracusa that's nasty.

[whophd@ioc.exchange]

@BalooUriza @whybird @benaar Give a centidollar, take a centidollar