And lo on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:43:06 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake, saying:

> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>>> Right. Well to me, if the prices have different numbers of *digits* in  
>>> them, they're pretty damn far apart! ;-)
>>  That's why they sell stuff for $999 instead of $1000.
>
> Yeah, I noticed that...
>

> any *idea* how many 1p coins I now own??



having prices ending in odd numbers means the employees have to make  
change and thus open tills and record the transaction. There are plenty of  
explanations floating around.

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Phil Cook

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