Love that you have to specify it's a joke because someone here would legitimately try to help otherwise
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What's the 9/10 after the price?
Yeah it's dumb. American thing only I think
9/10 of a cent
So the price of unleaded is 2.74 + 9/10 of a cent?
Isnt that just 2.749? Why show it as a fraction?
Sorry, I'm really confused.
Edit: Oh, is this to accommodate other fractions like 3/4 or 7/9?
The actual reason: Gasoline prices in the United States were customarily displayed in cents per US gallon (about 3.8 litres). This means the sign originally read something like "15", which meant $0.15 per gallon. Since the US has also a long history of pricing things in 9 or 99 (due to the psychological effect of such pricing), many service stations appended the extra 9/10 at the end to indicate 9/10 of 1 cent, which was a more meaningful price difference when the price of fuel was 15 or 25 cents and not two or three dollars. Legally, although the smallest cash denomination in the US is one cent, the US dollar can still be nominally divided into 1,000 "mills" for accounting purposes.
Inflation has caused the price of gasoline to rise, and when it passed $1 per gallon, service stations continued the same pricing traditions by just adding a third digit to the number. When digital price displays came on the scene, many of them continued to just display a three-digit number with the traditional 9/10 at the end, i.e. 123 9/10
New displays seem to have gotten rid of this tradition and just display a three-digit decimal number, i.e. 3.45 or 4.56.
Not sure why they show it like that, it might be a design choice. Where I live, it's often put as decimals, with the last digit smaller than the others:
That looks like 179^9^ or 35263
New unit unlocked. The decicent.
Also known as mill
It is ubiquitous in prices of gasoline and diesel fuels, which are usually in the form of $xx.xx9 per gallon (e.g., $3.599, commonly written as $3.59+9β10).
It's right there, glorious!
Shush, you, with your reasonable and well-sourced criticism of the decicent.
Why not just 2.749?
Because it would be the rational thing to do.
9/10ths of a cent. It's part of the tax.
art of the tax
I don't know whose fault this is, but my suspicion is that it's seg('s)fault.
Hey, give him some slack, he's under the weather after the core dumped him
Cheaper than diesel!
I can remember diesel being cheaper than gas. Like substantially. At least by a dollar+
Then 911 happened and it changed iirc
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Is that dollars per gallon?
Yep
Damn, that is some cheap gas.
1990's Canada vibes.
not too far off the prices here in Alaska (it is more cost effective to run a Prius on gas as a generator than to pay for electricity, this is incredibly stupid)
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