> On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:26:42 +0100 , Marco Cimarosti wrote: > > French francs amounts were often > > written with a single decimal (because the smallest coin was 10 cents) > > No, the 5 centime coin remained in use (until the recent demise of the > Franc, of course) and in any case it was very rare to see amounts > written (or displayed) with anything other than 2 decimals.
And we even had some 3.99 FF prices, even though we couldn't pay them in cash. What happened is that the store would sum up everything you buy and then round down to whatever could be paid in hard currency. A good deal: two 3.99 FF items would set you back 7.95 FF, versus 7.90 FF if they had been priced at 3.95 FF to start with. Multiply that by millions of sales monthly... YA
