[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2002-09-01 03:04 UTC: > Depending on the subtleties of definition, the US currency is not truly > decimal. It has two base units, cent and dollar, just like many > currencies.
Didn't "cent" merely evolve as a short form for the word centidollar and now also centieuro? So one base unit only ... Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
