I prefer Bristol City.
The old money system? Page 2
Quote: Tuumble @ August 13 2013, 11:40 AM BSTI don't remember the changeover but the key coins and notes I guess were:
Pennies (12 per Shilling, 240 per Pound)
Shilling (20 per pound)
10 Shilling note (2 per Pound)I seem to recall that all measurements, whether in size, weight, money etc were deliberately complicated so the poor couldn't work it out. Therefore the toffs got richer.
Stand by your beds! Don't rule out this never happening again
I very much doubt that that was the reason. It was highly convenient to have shillings easily divisible by 2, 3, 4 The concept of halves, thirds and quarters is easily understood by uneducated people.
Long ago there also used to be a four-penny coin called a Groat, which is a third of a shilling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groat_%28coin%29
Human maths would be better off if we evolved with 12 fingers.
Quote: billwill @ August 13 2013, 5:50 PM BSTDunno, I'll try it on you next time we meet.
In a few years there won't be any money
Not notes and coins anyway
It will all be computerised
They want us all to be a number and everything on file
>>The concept of halves, thirds and quarters is easily understood by uneducated people.
Actually, I asked for a third of a piece of cheese at a supermarket, and the worker had to ask her mate for help. They had a discussion about it before being able to divide the cheese into three. I wonder if they had been brought up with old money, they might perhaps have a better handle on fractions.
T'was always so . .
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Quote: Nogget @ August 13 2013, 9:35 PM BST>>The concept of halves, thirds and quarters is easily understood by uneducated people.
Actually, I asked for a third of a piece of cheese at a supermarket, and the worker had to ask her mate for help. They had a discussion about it before being able to divide the cheese into three. I wonder if they had been brought up with old money, they might perhaps have a better handle on fractions.
Obviously your fault for not asking for 33% of the cheese.
Quote: lofthouse @ August 13 2013, 9:16 PM BSTThey want us all to be a number and everything on file
They won't get my data if I become a hobo. Ha!
That is so ripe for editing!
The florin remained legal tender up until 1992 when the new 'ten pence' was introduced in a smaller size. I used to get very excited as a kid when one turned up in my change. They always seemed to be dated 1967.
Quote: Nogget @ August 13 2013, 9:35 PM BST>>The concept of halves, thirds and quarters is easily understood by uneducated people.
Actually, I asked for a third of a piece of cheese at a supermarket, and the worker had to ask her mate for help. They had a discussion about it before being able to divide the cheese into three. I wonder if they had been brought up with old money, they might perhaps have a better handle on fractions.
I had a rather long and protracted 'discussion' with my 10 year old the other day about thirds. He wanted to divide 100 into three and he kept wanting to turn the 1/3 fraction into a decimal. On that basis you can never get to 100 as it would be 99.999999999999 etc.
I just kept saying that the three thirds are three equal parts so the answer is simply 33 and a 1/3. He was having none of it. 
But 1/3 is exactly 0.33 recurring. And 100 is exactly 99.99 recurring. What's the problem?
Quote: billwill @ August 13 2013, 6:02 PM BSTIt was highly convenient to have shillings easily divisible by 2, 3, 4 The concept of halves, thirds and quarters is easily understood by uneducated people.
Is that really the reason? Surely it's because the Romans all had 12 fingers and toes - that's why there's 12 inches to a foot as well.
Quote: Badge @ August 14 2013, 10:35 AM BSTBut 1/3 is exactly 0.33 recurring. And 100 is exactly 99.99 recurring. What's the problem?
Close, but no banana for you.
Quote: billwill @ August 15 2013, 12:48 AM BSTClose, but no banana for you.
Que? Should I have said 99.9 recurring, not that it makes a difference given that it's recurring?
Quote: Chappers @ August 14 2013, 9:40 PM BSTIs that really the reason? Surely it's because the Romans all had 12 fingers and toes - that's why there's 12 inches to a foot as well.
Probably they just had big feet from all that marching about. I hear an inch started as being the length of the second part of your second finger.
Quote: Badge @ August 15 2013, 12:51 AM BSTQue? Should I have said 99.9 recurring, not that it makes a difference given that it's recurring?
Actually I dunno. I'm an engineer, not a mathematician.
