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Re:Everyone gets numbers wrong, even the New York Times by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:02AM (#31083239)
ok so as I understand it .19¢ must be 19% of a penny, 19 * 5 is 95, so 95% of a penny. If you add sales tax to that, if your state has one, doesn't that come out to 5 for a penny? Are you being facetious or is .19¢ the same as $.19 and my base expectation is wrong?
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Re:Everyone gets numbers wrong, even the New York Times by mholm on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:11AM (#31083379)
Shops commonly use .19¢ and $.19 interchangably, when they are definitely not. The poster you're replying to also realized this.
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Re:Everyone gets numbers wrong, even the New York Times by tablespoon on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:23AM (#31083555)
> Shops commonly use .19¢ and $.19 interchangably, when they are definitely not. The poster you're replying to also realized this.

Honestly, I think the correct policy is probably just to interpret .19¢ as a syntax error.

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Re:Everyone gets numbers wrong, even the New York Times by bryanrasmussen on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @10:16AM (#31083445)
ok thanks for clarification!
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