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That's a conversion to the decimal amount, not a conversion to today's equivalent.
by phpnode 12y ago
That's a conversion to the decimal amount, not a conversion to today's equivalent.
- DanBC 12y agoThat feels like an odd thing to do, especially for international readers who won't know or care about UK decimalisation in 1972(?)
- phpnode 12y agoagreed, if I was more socially responsible I'd create a wikipedia account and edit it.
- dragonwriter 12y agoIts not really odd, its a natural way to convert a quantity stated in three units that have no obvious relation even to each other to someone unfamiliar with the pre-decimal system into a quantity stated in a single unit.