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British and Indian pre-partition (1947) coins are unwieldy compared to modern coins both in terms of weight and lack of decimalization. You'd swear they just co

British and Indian pre-partition (1947) coins are unwieldy compared to modern coins both in terms of weight and lack of decimalization. You'd swear they just copied whatever the Romans did (Carolingian monetary system). ;)

mc32 4y ago
Binary wouldn't be half bad: halves, quarters, eighths, sixteenths and thirty seconds of a pound.
- mikewarot 4y ago
  Binary isn't terrible, but you could use a factor of three or five every once in a while to make it more divisible... like 12 or 60. 8)
  - mc32 4y ago
    Yah people don’t believe me when I say SAE is superior to metric because they’re based on binary ;)