Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:)
| From: | Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 21, 2001, 13:21 |
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At 05.49 a.m. 21.12.2001 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
><rant>Pennies are a god-awful nuisance and should be abolished. We
>spend a fortune in minting them every year, and most of them go straight
>to coin jars and stay there almost forever. It costs something like
>US$0.30 to make a hundred of them. You can't buy anything with one.
>It's only the fanatical conservatism of the U.S. in such matters that
>keeps them in being at all.</rant>
And while you're trying to get rid of 1c coins, I want us to be rid of our
5c coins.
And another advantage of getting rid of 1 and 2 cent coins is that rounding
actually becomes important and a Real World piece of Maths... how else do
you know how much something costing $1.23 will cost you if you pay in cash?
Tristan