Re: OT: coins and currency

On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:15:53 -0500, Jefferson Wilson
<jeffwilson63@...> wrote:

> Paul Bennett wrote:
>> On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 22:07:23 -0500, Jefferson Wilson
>> <jeffwilson63@...> wrote:
>>
>>> Depends on whether you want the lowest number of _coins_ or the
>>> lowest  number of _types_.  Binary is good for the former, but for the
>>> latter  you get the series: 1, 3, 6, 12, 24, etc.  (Something to keep
>>> in mind  for those of us with duodecimal numbering systems I think.)
>>> Hmmm, take  this series up to 96, round each value to the nearest
>>> number divisible  by 5, and you have the American coinage system.
>>  There's a 15c coin?
>
> What number of the series rounds to 15?
I read "nearest" as "next", which actually made fairly decent sense in
context, since rounding to the nearest gives two "5"s (1, 5, 5, 10, 25,
50, 100), whereas "next" gives a series of distinct values: 1, 5, 10, 15,
25, 50, 100.

Mea maxima culpa.




Paul

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