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Anyone else getting crazy tax amounts on purchases?

MalandarMalandar Posts: 776
edited October 2020 in The Commons

I just bought a few things and I had to laugh when I saw the added sales tax... Tax $3.6100000000000008 That's some detailed tax records...

Post edited by Richard Haseltine on

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  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,320

    That's not reliable, at that small of a value it's a computer precision error. In my state they are required to "round upwards" once you get to the thousands place with no regards to the established rounding rules in scientifiic mathemathics rules so the tax would of been $3.62.

  • Catherine3678abCatherine3678ab Posts: 8,404
    edited October 2020

    - edited as comment no longer required.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,809

    Moved to the Commons as it definitely isn't an offer of a freebie.

  • MalandarMalandar Posts: 776
    Richard Haseltine said:

    Moved to the Commons as it definitely isn't an offer of a freebie.

    Did I put it in the freebie forum? Sorry about that I was used to that spot being where the commons was and for some reason the forums seem to be shifti9ng around a lot here lately.

  • MalandarMalandar Posts: 776
    nonesuch00 said:

    That's not reliable, at that small of a value it's a computer precision error. In my state they are required to "round upwards" once you get to the thousands place with no regards to the established rounding rules in scientifiic mathemathics rules so the tax would of been $3.62.

    Yeah I assumed that everything rounded up for over half a cent and down for under half a cent, which was why I was amused by the t

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