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Comments on news posted 2006-12-11 12:06:32: Last week we told you the story of one Verizon Wireless user who travelled to Canada and was billed .002 dollars per kilobyte instead of the promised rate of .002 cents per kilobyte. ..
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  Rob AJets AFC ChampionshipPremium
join:2005-01-17
Pompton Plains, NJ | It takes a great company... To admit when their wrong. | |
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| Re: It takes a great company... B/S, it takes a great company to refund EVERYONE who was charged the higher rates.. just because they gave back the money for ONE CUSTOMER who had the cahonies to complain and have back $71 and change minus the .71 cents is beyond the POINT.. A great company would not be charging that high price in the first place and make it look like they were charging an infinitely lesser price. Here's the key: did they change their rate structure to the HIGHER price or LOWER price?
higher price=scum bags
lower price=decent company | |
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 intellerSociopaths always win.
join:2003-12-08
Tulsa, OK
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| gov should work this out. Since 1 cent is the smallest denomination you can make physically make change for, the US gov should forbid paper money denominations like this. Verizon should just say 5kb for a penny.
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| |  damnPremium
join:2002-10-23
nyc | Re: gov should work this out. How about gas stations that sell gas for $2.49 and 9/10 of a cent. And then round it up to the next bigger value? I know it's just a cent, but cent after cent and it's money.
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matt5
join:2001-10-06
Lagrangeville, NY | Lost Reading this has made me more lost then I have ever been in my life. 
I like the can only use cent as smallest unit idea. | |
| | | c'mon guys!! hahahahahahaha, oh my goodness, sooo many people on this blog are having such a hard time understanding it. okay, look. A cent (a penny) is PART of a dollar, as in, the dollar is a LARGER unit. Therefore, .002 parts of a penny, a smaller unit, cannot equal .002 parts of a a dollar, the larger unit. Not only does it not make sense logically, it's physically not possible, with anything, not just currency.
A quick refresher from 5th grade: .1 is the tenths place, .01 is the hundreths place, .001 is the thousandths place, .0001 is the ten thousandths place, and .00001 is the hundred thousanths place. (the logic behind it is if you multiplied, say the thousandths place (.001), times 1000, you get 1)
Now the math. First understand that one cent ($0.01) is one-one hundreth (1/100) of a dollar. This means that a cent is one part of a hundred parts that make up a dollar. Thus, two cents is two-one hundreths (2/100) of a dollar, easily expressed as $0.02. The INTENDED rate, which customer service failed to properly read, was $0.002, which translates to two-one thousandths (2/1000) of a dollar.
Using the same logic, the quoted rate of .002 cents is two-one thousandths (2/1000) OF A CENT; obviously, you're saying it's .002 cents, it has to be part of a cent.
Putting these ideas together, the quoted rate of .002 cents equals two thousandths (2/1000) of one hundreth (1/100, a cent) of a dollar (because we have just said that a cent/penny is one hundreth of a dollar). In terms of dollars then, the quoted rate would be $0.00002, which reads 2/100,000ths of a dollar. And for that dude that thinks $0.0002 is 2 cents, that is shameful because 2 cents is a commonly expressed figure shown as $0.02. The point is, there is an enormous difference between the quoted rate of .002 cents and the intended rate of $0.002. If i've made some typographical error in all this, please post a correction, although i'm certain all my numbers are presented correctly. | |
| | | Not Math On the nit picky side, this isn't a mathematical error, it's an arithmetic error. | |
| |  JohnnyPremium
join:2001-06-27
Atlanta, GA
kudos:1 | Re: Not Math Actually, there were no arithmetic errors. The error was in quoting the rate as
"0.002 cents per kilobyte"
which was not the correct rate.
Some dumbass middle manager, who probably also gets "its" and "it's" mixed up, must have written that in the company policy book.
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| | | | | Re: Not Math I just left church and y'all almost made me cuss.
I now have a headache from laughing at all the 'cents'ible responses.
Thanks...
Lloyd | |
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