In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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?
Halfpennies had disappeared from the BR accounting system before the first use of computers for accounting work. -- David Wild using RISC OS on broadband www.davidhwild.me.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
