Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 03:39:28 PDT
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: H Re: Was Getting screened / Currency of the realm
Ah yes, well you have to remember the advantages of the LSD system:
apart from anything else, you can divide pounds by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12,
15, 16, 20, 24, 30, 40, 48, 60, 80, and 120...
in decimal, all you get is 2, 4, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50. Not half as much fun.
Of course the best thing about decimalisation was that the new 2p coin was
the same size and weight as the old halfpenny but worth five times as
much...and vending machines couldn't tell the difference!
Neil
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>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: H Re: Was Getting screened / Currency of the realm
>Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 01:26:11 -0700
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>Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 09:22:45 +0100
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>Subject: Re: H Re: Was Getting screened / Currency of the realm
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> "neil barnes"
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> Subject: Re: H Re: Was
>Getting screened / Currency of the realm
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> Please respond to
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> >Look, it all used to be very easy:
><SNIP>
> >a quid and a shilling make a guinea
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>No problem at all...the new decimal system was so complicated it took two
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>No problem? Imagine (if you will) a young lad growing up, learning about
>money for the 1st time...
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>"So Mummy, five pence is five pennys, so why is six-pence two and a half
>pennys?"
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>( UK: Mummy / US: Mom )
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>I have no idea what the following means!!
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> >For Rob:
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> >US, 2 bits:?
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> >4 bits:?
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> >6 bits:?
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