Big Oil RIPS YOU OFF -- via Unfair Mathematics

In which John discusses rounding in math and how oil companies use it to cheat you out of millions of pennies on your gasoline purchases.
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This is the letter I wrote them:
Dear Exxon,

My name is John Green. I am a novelist and videoblogger. Due to your use of radically unfair traditional methods of rounding mathematics (which rounds up 5/9ths of the time), I've been overcharged by one penny on five percent of my gas purchases.

In the last two years, this adds up to (approximately) eight cents from you (and two cents from Shell).

Please send me my eight cents.

Best wishes!
John Green

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[radness13]

@GSpotter63 I think we ALL like this guy. :D

[maichips]

Big oil is using pennies to screw us! It's just like when Voldemort used unicorns to kill people! >:(

[SuperChocolatefrog]

THIS IS WHY PENNIES SHOULD NOT BE IN EXISTENCE

[jaymeeboh]

@vmqta94 Not so in the eyes of John. He has deep-seated hatred for unicorns.

[vmqta94]

@maichips NO pennies are bad, Unicorns are good

[sgtfwoods]

He called Nerdfighter Daniel Biss before this I bet

[cocaotheobromida]

In the title, out of "Big OIL RIPS YOU OFF", Big is the only word not in all caps. Kind of ironic.

Best wishes!

[jackkatez]

@wolverineblue18 i assume marley was quoting him...

[1fishy2fishy]

im wearing a turtle neck right now

[SomeoneBeginingWithI]

@wrheade when he's talking about rounding he is talking about saying 4.2 --> 4 and 5.7 --> 6.

5.0 is already 5, so there is no need to round it

[wolverineblue18]

Wait Abraham Lincoln? I thought that was Bob Marley...

[wrheade]

But what about 0?