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Gas stations in America are starting to max out their displays with $9.999 prices
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Why not just alter the significant digits? What is the point of this article?
The digital signs are usually
A.BC ^DE
You don't make gas station signs from a massive LCD screen like your TV. That's a huge waste of money when you can accomplish a brighter and cheaper visual that is a simple array of LEDs or even older non LEDs lights.
Some might not even be able to move the LED that represents the decimal point.
And if you did you'd have a price that looked like
10.9 ^59
Which looks really confusing. Is the price $10.9059? Or $10.9590?
The point of the article is that gas station signs were designed with the assumption that the signs would need to be replaced long before we got close to having a price near $10 a gallon. It's an example of how insane the cost is now. That's it. I think it's an interesting tidbit. Nothing to be excited about. But not something to be bothered by.