On 4 Jan 2002, at 7:33, Han Maenen wrote: > In France, about 15% of the population continued to convert 'new' francs > back to 'old' ones up to Dec. 31 last! Even young people took part in this > folly, although they had had no personal experience with the old franc. The > old franc was abolished *40 years* ago! It only took multiplying by 100 to BTW: in italy POS and many cash register require the amount to be insert as eurocent. This has led to some problem since a few cash register require use of comma, so a cahier used to one type when moved to another one can be easily make a mistake. BTW in the various countries of the world how this have been accomplished (that is whre one dial the comma and where not ?)
Leonardo Boselli nucleo informatico e telematico Dipartimento Ingegneria Civile Universita` di Firenze V. S. Marta 3 - I-50139 Firenze tel +39()0554796431 fax +39()055495333 http://www.dicea.unifi.it/~leo
