Re: Expressing fractions

From: CDB (unbellecd_at_sprint.ca)
Date: 12/31/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:23:43 -0500

"*** T. Winter" <***.Winter@cwi.nl> wrote in message
news:I9KEpx.DM@cwi.nl...
> In article <afMAd.95132$K7.75715@news-server.bigpond.net.au> "John
> Atkinson" <johnacko@bigpond.com> writes:
> > "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> wrote...
> ...
> > > On
> > > that basis around here I'd pay $1.05 for one of something
> > > priced at $.99, $2.15 for two, $3.20 for three, and $4.30
> > > for four. (We have an 8% sales tax.)
> >
> > We have 10% GST (same sort of thing). But it's included in the
> > advertised
> > prices, as a matter of course. The only place you see it is in a
> > separate
> > line at the bottom of your sales docket (sometimes).
>
> There is only one country in the world where the advertised prices do
> *not* include sales tax. Makes it pretty difficult to pay exactly is
> my experience. (The times I have been there I always returned with a
> large load of cents.)

Oh yeah, like, which country, eh? CDB