I just noticed today that restaurants listed as earning 7 miles to the $ actually earn 7.5 miles. Apparently the iDine web system can only display integers.

Also, I recently encountered an exception to the formula I use to calculate my expected miles in a spreadsheet:

INT(Total Bill * Earning Rate) = Expected Miles

Example:
$8.88 * 10 = 88.8
INT(88.8) = 88 expected miles, credited as such

Exception:
$24.91 * 7.5 = 186.825
INT(186.825) = 186 but listed on iDine is 187

Based on previous experience with this restaurant, I know 7.5 is the correct rate.

In all other cases they have never rounded up and never used standard rounding (up at .5 and greater, else down). They have alwasy used the greatest integer, i.e., rounding down.

Of course, this could have just changed.

Any thoughts? Anyone else this anal?

[This message has been edited by Rut Dog (edited 09-06-2003).]