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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 1242635, member: 15062&quot;]This points to one reason that so many people dealing with money today are so arithmetically ignorant.&nbsp; They generally have a cash register, or even a calculator telling them to return a certain amount, starting with the largest denomination to the smallest.&nbsp; They simply haven&#039;t learned to &quot;count up.&quot;&nbsp; Therefore, if you buy a $2.57 item and pay with a $20, the register says pay back $17.43 so they &quot;count down&quot; and pull out a Ten, a Five, two Ones, a Quarter, a Nickel, a Dime and three Pennies.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the register is broken, they simply have no knowledge of a way to calculate the change, which is to &quot;count up&quot; and start with the $2.57, add 3 cents to get up to $2.60, then add a dime (to $2.70), a nickle (to $2.75) and a quarter To get to $3.00.&nbsp; Then $2 to go to $5, $5 to get to $10 and finally $10 to get to the original $20.&nbsp; Cripes, I learned that in sixth grade.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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