Re: H Re: Was Getting screened / Currency of the realm

[Robert . Earls]

Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 09:22:45 +0100
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Subject: Re: H Re: Was Getting screened / Currency of the realm

                                                                                       
                              
                    "neil barnes"                                                      
                              
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>Look, it all used to be very easy:
<SNIP>
>a quid and a shilling make a guinea
<SNIP>
No problem at all...the new decimal system was so complicated it took two
<SNIP>

No problem?  Imagine (if you will) a young lad growing up, learning about
money for the 1st time...

"So Mummy, five pence is five pennys, so why is six-pence two and a half
pennys?"

( UK: Mummy / US: Mom )

I have no idea what the following means!!

>For Rob:
>
>US, 2 bits:?
>
>4 bits:?
>
>6 bits:?






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