Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:)

Am 22.12.01, Tristan Alexander McLeay yscrifef:

> >A dime is the tenth part of a dollar. Just like the cent is the
> >hundredth part of a dollar. See, it's all metric.
>
> Why did you metrify your money but not your measurements?
Typically American. We tend to do things in baby steps. Actually,
we _are_ metric,  but at an underlying level. All our standard
measures are defined with respect to SI units (i.e., the inch
is defined as 2.54cm) - and I think that's about as close to all
that metric muck as we'll ever get. I notice,  for example, that
at work patients are supposed to be weighed in kilos; yet when
talking about their weight, standard weights are given with kilos
appended. Either that, or the other person says "What's that for
real?"

> >There was no tenth part of a pound, until 1849 when the UK made
> >the first tentative baby steps towards decimalisation. Note that
> >the older (large sized) 10p coins are the same size and
> >composition as the old florin.
>
> Are these 10p coins or 10d coins?
Which? The post D-Day coins are 10p; the florins are 24d. A
florin is two shillings, each of which is 12d; the pound is
240d. Post D-Day, the old florins became 10p, though, and
the shillings became 5p.

> Tristan
Padraic.
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