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Flawless logic (lemmy.world)
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[–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yes but the cashier wants us to tell her a monetary amount. It has nothing to do with USA using gallons instead of litres. It's a matter of multiplying money amount times unit of volume of desired fuel.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Hm, that's still an odd system, to me. Around here, the cash register does the multiplication, and I probably wouldn't be trusted to say the correct sum (nor would I want to). Never tried that, though — it might be possible to do it that way.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    What I'm describing is not exclusive to the USA. It's just how fuel purchases are made when paying at the pump isn't an option, so you have to go in & do the transaction with a human behind a Point-of-Sale machine. The person at the cash register doesn't know how many gallons or liters you need. So you have to tell them. But they want to know the corresponding cash amount, not the volume of liquid. So you have to do the math yourself in order to tell them the dollar amount to charge to your card. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I don't know how to make this any clearer.

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