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

Matthew Kehrt wrote:
>
> I seem to be the only one in the world in favor of keeping pennies.  It
> seems silly to have the smallest coin be worth 5 units and have all
> other denominations multiples of this.  It would make more sense to
> redefine the value of pennies to be five times their face value and work
> up from there.  (Easier said than done, of course.)
So, the dollar would become worth five of today's dollars?  Essentially
cutting prices by 80%?  Why?

At any rate, I agree that the penny should be kept until such time as
we're ready to eliminate the nickel.  Then the dime will be the smallest
unit, and we'll preserve the decimal nature.  Presumably people would
drop the final 0 after a while and just write things like $4.7.  Of
course, that would mean also getting rid of the quarter in favor of,
say, a 20 cent coin.

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