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Indeed. Libra, solarii, denarii == pounds, shillings, pennies in the old pre 1970 British system. Sometimes referred to as LSD.
by osullivj 7y ago
Indeed. Libra, solarii, denarii == pounds, shillings, pennies in the old pre 1970 British system. Sometimes referred to as LSD.
- tryptophan 7y agoFun fact, this is also why the british pound has the symbol £.
- bitpow 7y agoAnd why pound is abbreviated “lb”
- twic 7y agoA minor correction: librae, solidi, denarii. Solidi were so called, according to wikipedia, because (at first) they were solid gold. Solidus would also be a decent name for a stablecoin!
- Freak_NL 7y ago> Solidus would also be a decent name for a stablecoin! Its inevitable currency symbol is already part of the Unicode standard: / https://unicode-table.com/en/002F/ https://unicode-table.com/en/002F/ An interesting related titbit: the Japanese currency sign for the Yen (¥) used to be encoded as the ASCII backslash (\) in the pre-Unicode era. Japanese fonts simply put the Yen-sign there.
- twic 7y agoAnd on the Japanese version of Windows, the yen symbol was the path separator, right? I vaguely remember this: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20051014-20/?p=33753 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20051014-20/?p=33...