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Comment by tempestn

11 hours ago

But there would be rounding down, so how is this relevant?

What's even to say anything will be rounded down? If Walmart says "we're going to round anything from $0.01 to $0.04 up to $0.05," do you think the free market would put them out of business out of principle, or would they get away with it? I think they'd get away with it.

Nobody has to round down. There's no government rule.

I would expect many businesses to implement ceil()-flavored rounding.