Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️I want to invent a currency that has a coin worth 1/3rd of a dollar, just to punish programmers
Christian Kent 𝘊𝘒 :＼﹥@foone Last week I learned that UK banks before 1971 had implemented some computers using £/s/d, and that due to the (relatively rare) conversion of 1:1 new pounds to old pounds, they continued using it in the back-end — in some areas to this day
https://youtu.be/dip8eHw3guo [further citation required IMO]
But yeah, £0/6/8 is exactly a 1/3 of a pound, and that’s the same pound as now.
