On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 05:39 AM, David H. Adler wrote:


On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 02:33:52PM +0100, Andrew Wilson wrote:

It was a UK system, not exclusively english. We (the UK) abandoned this
madness sometime in the 1970's I'm 37 and I barely remember it.

I'm 38 and I don't remember it at all. Of course, I don't actually live
in the uk. I only know about this stuff from old Monty Python
episodes...



I do. I was serving in my dad's greengrocer's shop when i was about six. Helped get the till converted to decimal.

Bah, duodecimal is the way to go.




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