auto rounding off

[Adam Funk]

On 2008-12-09, Adam Funk wrote:

> I can't really answer for Hungary, but I have seen similar situations
> elsewhere.  In France in 1990, the smallest coin in circulation was
> FRF0.05, but bank accounts were resolved to FRF0.01, and it was
> possible to write cheques and make card transactions at that level.
>
> Catchweight items in the supermarket often came out to prices that
> weren't multiples of 5 centimes; if you were paying cash, the cashier
> would round to the nearest 5 when making change.

I forgot to mention that some countries in the Eurozone do the same
thing now.