On Aug 31, 5:39 pm, David H Wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I believe that to the degree that "real" accounting was done in those > > currencies it did in fact use non-decimal bases. Just as people don't > > use decimal time values (except us crazy computer folk), you're write > > 1 pound 4 shillings, not 1.333... pounds. > > When I worked on the British Railways National Payroll system, about 35 > years ago, we, in common with many large users, wrote our system to deal > with integer amounts of pennies, and converted to pounds, shillings and > pence in the output part of the system. > So you never handled halfpennies?
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