Audacity and 99 Cent pricing

I use a program known as Audacity to edit my audio files--and it’s amazing. And it’s free. Even if it were $50, I’d gladly pay for it. $100? Count me in. $150? Sure. $200? That’s it. That’s the cutoff point. Well... $200.01? OK. $200.02? Maybe. $200.03? Now we’re venturing into territory where I’m pissed. Who the hell are they to charge $200.03 for Audacity software? That’s crazy. So $200.02 is the exact figure. Well, I guess the individual cents don’t make that much of a difference. I don’t know. What about 99 cent pricing? Everyone does that. So I guess a cent can make a difference. “A dollar--I don’t think so. 99 cents--count me in.”

I'll bet a lot of mathematicians aren’t too happy about that. They have nightmares about it. Well. Do they care about money, or do they just care about numbers? Maybe they feel like when you apply numbers to money, you take away from the purity of math. As in “this is math. Don’t do that bullshit.”