Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:)
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Saturday, December 22, 2001, 4:20 |
Matthew Kehrt wrote:
> My point was that it seems odd not to have a coin for the lowest
> denomination of money in a system. If a five cent coin is the lowest
> amount one can have, the unit of currency should be redefined as
> something like one vint = $1/20 or somesuch. Apparently I wasn't very
> clear ;-).
Well, if we eliminated both the penny and the nickel, then the smallest
denomination would be the dime. :-) Besides, we once had a half-cent
with nothing below that.
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