Re: Expressing fractions

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:07:05 GMT

Lee Sau Dan wrote:

> When I visited a Mc-D_____ like fast-food restaurant in Helsinki, I
> bought something for an amount like 5.18EUR, and upon giving a 10 EUR
> note, I got 4.85EUR change back. I earned 3 cents, solely because
> they don't have 1-cent coins in cirrculation in Helsinki. If they had
> rounded UP the price, I'd have digged out the German Euro-cent coins
> from my pockets. (If you've got a Finnish 1-cent coin, keep it until
> you find a coin-collector shop, where the 1-cent coin can worth 2
> Euros!)

During my three days in Antwerp, I got euro coins from all over the
place. Finland may have stopped minting them, but they can't keep them
out of the country. 

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Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net