On Wednesday, August 22, 2001 4:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> >> Too inconvenient. Do you have any idea how many Angstroms there are to
> >> a Farthing?
> >
> >Neither me nor units(1) has ever heard of farthing. But it does know
> >furlong, which is about 2e+12 Angstroms.
>
> A farthing is an old unit of (British) currency. 1/6 of a penny, I believe
> (it was before my time).
>
Nah, it was four farthings to a penny
My father used to groan, to the tune of 'Rule Britannia':
Rule Britannia, two tanners make a bob,
Three make eighteenpence and four two bob
How's that for a totally logical system, and I'm not even going to mention
florins, half-crowns, crowns, zaks, threepenny bits, quids and guineas, am I?
Nor even ponies, monkeys and tons.
John Coyle
(who has now had to work his mind around four different currency changes, two
goes at metrication, and one at decimalization)
Brisbane, Australia
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