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h add alf that dozen men of and the other women We are , now as they propose ought to g to ive be a , sli six ght of account one and of
-a-. the reference change to , the women way ' s of _Lisual making attainments it , and the and consequences usual wants , with . especial whimto
Suppose that the government , in mere freak and , were make shall henceforward this change in be the six coinage and : the a farthing half shilling ; the "bit shilling , now six shall pe ? _zce be ,
tivelve pence coin would and a do halfpenny this . pence There . A would small be lowering a depreciation of the of value four of in the the copper
hundred : that is , twenty-five farthings take the place and office of twenty Such -four . freak One hundred would seem farthings strange would but be every what one ninet would y-six admit now
that are . a government a might do many more , _puzzling things with the to money get . than Change usual for Addition six pence of would money be would very easy carry , a farthing \ 2 \ d . to more the
puter shilling would : that remember is , . -when every how thing many has shillings been done he carried as now , and , the wmild
comstrike off from the pence column , \ d . for each shilling . Such a henomenon as Is . 12 d . would sometimes present itself , which would
p not be 2 s . but _\ d . short of it . This freak would add a littlebut not muchto existing calculation .
, , Now . suppose It ives this fift alteration farthings , not to the as a shilling whim , but ( instead with of a rational forty-eig pur ht ) - ; y
pose one hundred g farthings to the florin ( instead of ninety-six ) ; one th "We ousand have farthing then very s to nearl the y poun a decimal d ( instead coinage of nine . Make hundred a coin and sixty of the ten . )
farthings , which call a cent ; and we have as follows , calling farthing Ten mils under are one its new cent value ( the mil a mil is . nearly a farthing , the cent nearly
2 \ d Ten . of cents present are one money florin . ) ( there are five cents to the shilling , and
both Ten shilling florins and are one florin potmd are ( this the same is exactl as y now as in . ) the present coinage . ) the division of
decimal all B calculation y making ( or ten-fashion the in what division ) way is called of of money reckoning reduction tall . y numbers with For examp , we at le once , how abolish many our
farthings are there in 1961 . 11 s . 2 % d . ? in The parcels following of four is fort the - blessed eihtand consequence nine hundred of packing and sixt up y , farthings while we
, yg , pack up numbers in parcels of ten , one hundred , one thousand , etc .: — £ 196 11 s . 2 % d .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 259, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/43/
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