On Sep 1, 4:58 am, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
Or farthings? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
