return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 2 days agoStop making cents: US Mint moves forward with plans to kill the pennyapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square140fedilinkarrow-up1388arrow-down17
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minus-squarePyr@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down2·2 days agoIt’s the same issue with the penny, you round up or round down. If you have no penny, when taxes on your item make the total equal to $5.03, you pay $5.05. if the total is $5.02 you pay $5.00.
minus-squareHowAbt2morrow@futurology.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 days agoTurn the dime into 12.5 cents.
minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-22 days agoBring back the bit! The more I think about it, the more I like it: Eliminate the Penny, Nickel, and Dime Bring back Old West nomenclature IT’S AMERICAN AS FUCK! Will drive the metric nerds absolutely batshit. “Of course we have an eighth* of a dollar, why would we use decimal?!” * I think just the spelling of eighth will spin eurotrash into a tizzy
minus-squareArcher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoThe problem with this proposal is that it could start circulating on Xitter and then become actual policy
minus-squareRestrictedAccount@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 days ago🎶Shave and haircut, two bits🎵
minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8leYVnk6Gw
minus-squareIamSparticles@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoSure, but the rounding errors become a lot bigger if you get rid of the nickel.
It’s the same issue with the penny, you round up or round down.
If you have no penny, when taxes on your item make the total equal to $5.03, you pay $5.05. if the total is $5.02 you pay $5.00.
Turn the dime into 12.5 cents.
Bring back the bit!
The more I think about it, the more I like it:
* I think just the spelling of eighth will spin eurotrash into a tizzy
The problem with this proposal is that it could start circulating on Xitter and then become actual policy
🎶Shave and haircut, two bits🎵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8leYVnk6Gw
Sure, but the rounding errors become a lot bigger if you get rid of the nickel.