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I think it might work better as a countries who have removed a one cent coin and countries who have a similar or smaller denomination category Nheyer (talk) 22:36, 1 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Neither piece is very long - don't really see the benefit, because the topic is the same, and if split there'd just be two very very short sections. Short sections are fine if talking about different topics, but this is just "two sides of the same coin" (har har). SnowFire (talk) 22:46, 1 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Confusing representation of the U.S. government's annual loss minting pennies
How does the scientific notation work when representing the U.S goverment's annual loss minting pennies? This is clearly not just simple multiplication, as multiplying 7,596,400,000 by -0.76 will yield about 577 million instead of 58 million. Is this just an error? It may not be, though, because when editing the template, I see the multiplication sign within a field called "Uncertainty" and the second number in a field called "Asymmetric uncertainty", both of which I do not understand. And if it is an error, where did the "-0.76" come from? The loss of minting one penny would be $1.72 using the data from 2022, so the -0.76 must be something different.
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It's original research to do our own math with minting numbers from 2020 combined with cost statements from 2022. If a source doesn't make the statement, we shouldn't. (Looks like using those numbers should produce ~130 million, but it really doesn't matter.) --Onorem (talk) 17:43, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The -0.76 looks like it would've been the cost in 2020. Page 10 of the reference used for the cost to produce shows that cost has gone from $0.0176 in 2020 up to $0.0272 in 2022. Somewhere in the history of the page, someone probably updated only part of the information. That's why we need to source statements like this. --Onorem (talk) 17:50, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you; note that I will not put this on the main Wikipedia article because it is indeed original research, but the amount of pennies produced in 2022 (which is 6359.6 M, or 6,359,600,000) multiplied by -0.0172 would equal to $109,385,120 of estimated losses to the government. I have included this as a detail for anyone who is trying to get the exact number and is wiling to risk accuracy and certainty for it (like me). Hill sawyer (talk) 01:48, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There are very few pro-penny arguments made compared to the arguments for eliminating the penny. Why so lopsided? Furthermore, the pro-penny side is subject to editorializing.
For example, under "Effect on prices: Consumers and the economy," the argument for keeping the penny begins "A research paper commissioned by the zinc lobby and its front group Americans for Common Cents concludes that were the penny to be eliminated, consumers, particularly poor consumers who are more likely to use cash, may pay several dollars more each year if all transactions are rounded up."
Aside from discrediting the argument's source as a "front group" for a profit-motivated lobbying group, the particular counterargument to this actually begins in the previous section, "Elimination would not hurt the poor," beginning with a point made by an organization that is not similarly identified as a front group but was in fact a lobbying group that was organized during the first Trump administration and advised on its home page (prior to the website's expiration) "President Trump, Secretary Steve Mnuchin, and Members of Congress must hear from you!" 2604:2D80:A782:BC00:812B:98C7:FAF7:F2A8 (talk) 07:25, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]