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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. -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42