"Doug..." wrote in message
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Exactly. I mean, we Americans could have sat around making fun of those
British who had a difficult time converting from Lsd currency to decimal
currency -- we've had decimal currency since the very beginning. But,
last I heard, not a single American I know ever drug the British over
the coals over that one.

Another benefit of decimal currency over Lsd (money, that is) is that
suddenly three quarters of the time spent in school on maths could be used
for something other than money sums.

rgds
Neil