The joke here in the US is that gasoline has been priced at xxx.9 cents per gallon for as long as I can remember, which makes the ".9" financially meaningless, though it's believed by marketing dorks that there is a perception that a gallon of gas costing 4.999 is a lot cheaper than 5.00 .
On Tuesday, August 22, 2023 at 1:29:52 AM UTC-7 Jon wrote: > Guessing they might've been used in petrol (gasoline) pump price displays? > I have a childhood memory of watching what I now know to be a numitron > display on the pump with a 1/2 oscillating on and off as the total mounted. > Back when a 1/2p was actually a relevant concept with a physical coin too... > > Jon. > > On Tuesday, August 22, 2023 at 3:02:39 AM UTC+1 Nicholas Stock wrote: > >> [image: 20230821_164810.jpg] >> >> Nick >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/a4ca3f5e-ba56-4bcc-ad6e-b78ac3aeb844n%40googlegroups.com.
