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But you're just proving my point: you get to 1 pound and 10p before you get to 2 pounds. So you get to a zero, 1.10, before you reach 2. That's the point of dec
by Ansil849 6y ago
But you're just proving my point: you get to 1 pound and 10p before you get to 2 pounds. So you get to a zero, 1.10, before you reach 2. That's the point of decimals that I am not understanding why people are ignoring.
- scrollaway 6y agoThen you are counting pennies not pounds, so you're still starting at 1. In other words, you start mentally counting from your smallest unit of precision in use. This is a fun thought exercise, but what a pointlessly pedantic tangent this thread took…
- d1sxeyes 6y agoAbsolutely, but then, the thread itself is a bit pointless, and pedantry is a pastime on HN :) I agree, in practical terms you're counting two things - pennies and pounds. You need a zero for the pennies counter before you need a two for the pounds counter for sure. But you don't count 'I have one hundredth of a pound, I have one fiftieth of a pound, I have three hundredths of a pound, I have a twenty-fifth of a pound' and so on.