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posted by [identity profile] del-c.livejournal.com at 12:48pm on 28/07/2009
or 1,008 farthings.

I sometimes wish we'd stuck with the old penny and decimalised the system by creating a new unit of currency with a thousand pennies, to be a bit over four old pounds. We could have called it the New Guinea.

We could have made the new currency in metal (the New Guinea Pig) or as notes (the Papuer New Guinea).
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posted by [identity profile] ceemage.livejournal.com at 01:01pm on 28/07/2009
I sometimes wish we'd stuck with the old penny and decimalised the system

I believe that's sort of what Australia and New Zealand did - their dollar was equivalent to 100 old pennies in value.
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posted by [identity profile] sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com at 01:40pm on 28/07/2009
Argh! Where's the pun jar?!

:))
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 01:56pm on 28/07/2009
I've had a look on the map. Could the pun jar be equidistant from the equatorial guinea and the papuer new guinea?
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posted by [identity profile] watervole.livejournal.com at 02:26pm on 28/07/2009
No, No, stop it now!
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posted by [identity profile] mopingelephant.livejournal.com at 05:50pm on 28/07/2009
Isn't that in Northern India...?
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posted by [identity profile] watervole.livejournal.com at 02:26pm on 28/07/2009
Groan!
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posted by [identity profile] autopope.livejournal.com at 03:17pm on 28/07/2009
NoNoNo, we should have redefined the pound as equal to 1024 farthings!
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 03:26pm on 28/07/2009
Making it 2^8 pence. Pieces of eight, anyone?
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posted by [identity profile] perlmonger.livejournal.com at 05:07pm on 28/07/2009
We should never have decimalised. Base 12 (and 60) is far more useful for pretty much anything than base 10, and has the additional benefit of enforcing at least some basic numeracy.

And don't get me started on temperature: whoever thought that a linear scale was a good idea needs shooting; I'll grant that a logarithmic scale would retain the need for an arbitrary reference point, but it'd get rid of the ludicrous idea of an achievable absolute zero. Come to that, similar applies to any other SI unit you care to mention.

[ wanders off muttering about the sort of pathological insecurity that requires absolutes and certainties in a Universe based on relativity and randomness ]

[ and we didn't have typos in HTML closing tags when I was a lad ]
Edited Date: 2009-07-28 05:08 pm (UTC)
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posted by [identity profile] sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com at 06:07pm on 28/07/2009
wot he said!
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posted by [identity profile] maryread.livejournal.com at 04:37am on 29/07/2009
Ooooh nice!

My Puffin edition Narnia books cost 3 and 6. I forget exactly how to write it, not at home to check the covers. Had to work out the dollar conversions to order them, back in the day.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 11:13pm on 29/07/2009
3/6 - quite a lot for a book! But cheaper than a hat.
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