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Join Date: Dec 1969
Location: chula vista ca usa
Posts: 5,728
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What Happens to the Rounded $$$$$
Many years ago in San Diego there was a bank programmer (I believe?) that discovered that bank customers were only getting 2 decimal places of $$$$ for their account interest, etc. The computer calculated to 12 decimal places so he thought.... hey why not save it so he did and ended up with diamonds and such but was caught.
Anyways, to the present, I bought gas at Costco today and noted the price per gallon was $3.559 and I bought 14.119 gallons. So if you do the math, the total should be $ 50.249521 but I was charged $50.25. So what about the $0.000479 that I lost???? May not sound like much, BUT with 1000s of customers per week or 100000000s per year this could add up??!!
Or am I just getting old and senile?
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