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A Problem Squared

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The Penny Scam

I really liked it because you can still precisely pay for things if you use a card or like chronic payment. But if you're paying cash it's just rounded to the nearest five cents. So what I would do is if I thought it would round down in my favour I pay in cash. If I think it would round up not in my favour, I'd pay on cards so you wouldn't have the rounding. And so you could save literally tens of cents a year. Wow. By strategically choosing how you pay and which way it rounds. Didn't they make catch me if I can based on that story? That caliber. Yeah. Who's your Tom Hanks? Who's the

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