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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2010273, member: 27832&quot;]Never going to happen. For evidence, look at any gas station&#039;s posted prices. It&#039;s been many decades since 1/10 cent was a significant fraction of the total price per gallon -- in fact, many years since <i>one</i> cent was a significant fraction of the price -- but Every. Single. Price still ends with &quot;and 9/10&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Actually, I&#039;ll take that back -- my local Kroger had a bug in their pump programming for a while so that, instead of the three cent per gallon discount I was supposed to get with my loyalty card, it gave 3.9 cents. Instead of (say) 3.669/gal, it would charge 3.660/gal. A trivial difference, as I argued above, but it <i>caught my attention</i>, and made me think of them first when I needed gas, even if I wasn&#039;t sure theirs was the very lowest price around.</p><p><br /></p><p>Psychology is more important than math when it comes to advertised prices. Coins may come and go, but the price increments they represent will live on.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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