Re: Types of numerals

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> Anyways, I never have more than 4 pennies in my wallet at any given
> time, because I use them.  Like, if something were priced, say, $7.51,
> and I had a $10 bill and, say, a couple dimes and a penny, I'll pay
> $10.01, to minimize my change.  (Admittedly, I'm semi-OCD on that issue
> ... I've been known to give a cashier $23.01 for a $7.51 purchase -
> $15.50 in change, the most compact change I could come up with with what
> I had on me)
I don't really think I'd call that remotely OCD. ("Just a minute, let me
see if I've got any change.") That's really a very common
practice---about the only people who don't do it are the people who want
to try and take certain coins out of circulation (I've met a few people
who try and collect all the 5c coins they can---they obviously hate them
as much as I do).

> One really has to wonder what the EU was thinking setting the Euro at a
> value that made .01 so nearly worthless.  They should've set it at about
> 5 times that value, so that a 1-cent piece would've been more worthwhile.
I only assume they were just trying to make the euro comparable in value
to the various dollars and the British pound. What I think they
should've done is just said that the primary subdivision of the euro was
€0.1, a dime or something. There's no reason a subdivision needs to be a
hundredth.

(Nik quoting Carsten.)
>  > The same goes for 2 cent
>  > pieces. I also wouldn't mind to introduce a 5 Euro coin
>  > because you very often get back a 5 Euro bill and the rest
>  > in cash[1]
>
> Interestingly, around here, "cash" is often used to mean paper money
> exclusively.
"Cash" I usually take to mean coins or notes, I don't think I've ever
heard either specialisation before. Notes are notes, rarely paper money
because hereabouts they're polymer (another thing I don't get is why
euros notes are paper. It makes it look like Monopoly money!). I
actually had to read that line a few times, because the normal thing to
hear for that meaning is "... and the rest in change".

> A lot of Americans just put their coins in their pocket.  I prefer
> keeping it in my wallet, as its more efficient, but lately I've been
> looking for a new, nicer, wallet, and you just can't find men's wallets
> with a coin-pocket.  Very annoying.
Australian men are the same---most women do put their coins in their
purses though. Or handbags. I find mens wallets with coin-pockets might
as well not have the coin pocket, because once you've got more than a
few coins, you can't close it! Perhaps it's less noticeable in the US
because all your common coins are of relatively low value, whereas we
have $1 and $2 coins which are actually of some use.

--
Tristan.

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