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Re: OT: coins and currency (was: [Theory] Types of numerals)

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Friday, January 6, 2006, 13:59
Hi!

"Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> writes:
> I think a con-currency (there's a good pun there somewhere involving > multithreading, but I'm too sick to think of it) is an interesting > problem on its own, if more conculturing than conlanging. There are > competing goals: minimize the number of denominations, while at the > same time minimzing the number of coins needed to represent any given > vale.
I always liked the Russian coins when I was there some years ago: among others, they had 3 and 15 kupecs coins. :-) **Henrik