Re: OT: coins and currency

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?

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