#post brought to you by my dad talking about having decimal ha'pennies as a kid
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yknow I'm glad fl uses decimal pounds despite the time period, the old pounds/shillings/pence system hurts
each pound had 20 shillings, each shilling had 12 pence, each pence had 2 halfpennies or 4 farthings
so, alternatively: each pound had 20 shillings, 240 pence, 480 halfpennies, or 960 farthings
can you imagine trying to do math with that? or how many layers the sidebar display would need??
#decimal pounds werent a thing until 1971!#post brought to you by my dad talking about having decimal ha'pennies as a kid#(which were then discontinued in 1984)#fallen london#chatter
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