On Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:01:07 +0200, Axel Berger wrote:

> alister wrote:
>> (that said I don't want to go back to pre decimal coinage)
>
> I loved it, it was so quaint and esoteric. And then i looked forward to
> my first visit to England at the age of twelve -- and they had had the
> gall to go decimal shortly before. Oh, the disappointment. I still have
> and treasure some paperbacks that give the price in shillings and pence
> on their covers.

you will like our new pound coin it resembles the old "thrupeny bit"
(both in shape & purchasing power :-( )



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 dunham: You know how real numbers are constructed from rational
         numbers by equivalence classes of convergent sequences?
 marcus: yes.

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