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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NeonBlurb, post: 2270737, member: 74855&quot;]Yes, rounding already occurs.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next time you buy gas, look at the price you are paying per gallon.&nbsp; I&#039;ll bet the last digit is 9/10 of a cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sales tax tends not to be a whole percent either.&nbsp; In Texas, state and local sales tax adds up to 8.25%</p><p><br /></p><p>So, if I walk into a gas station and buy a 99 cent candy bar, I would have to pay:</p><p><br /></p><p>$0.99 x 1.0825 = $1.071675</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll bet they round that to the nearest cent as I don&#039;t have any coins divided into ten thousandths of a cent.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is no monetary reason to worry about the demise of the cent.&nbsp; It has no buying power.&nbsp; Even if every transaction gets rounded up you&#039;re just not going to be loosing enough to rounding to matter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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