MRAB wrote: > 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? > Nobody was paid to the ha'penny. You could spend them in the shops, but payroll systems didn't use them. I am happy to say that I didn't become involved in financial programming until after decimalization (February 1971, IIRC - I was in Sweden at the time).
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