Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Dec 20, 2024
I want to invent a currency that has a coin worth 1/3rd of a dollar, just to punish programmers
Show threadjuleshDec 20, 2024
@foone That'll teach em to decimalise the currency, didn't have this problem when it was 12d to the shilling
Show threadFeminineFreyaNyctophile
@julesh @foone 7 shilling used to make a pfund in germany. so you even have some nice prime number action going on
Dec 20, 2024 at 10:38pmWeb
Show threadsimonbpDec 20, 2024
@FeminineFreyaNyctophile @julesh @foone And then there's the British pre decimalisation practice of pricing luxury goods in guineas (21s) vs pounds (20s). To handle both required factors of 2, 3, 5, and 7.