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260 DECIMAL COINAGE.
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Here are about thirty acts of thought or of memory ; thirty risks of mistake and ninety seconds of workone person with , another .
Now suppose ; we had a decimal coinage , and , we ask how many mils there are in 196 pounds , 5 florins , 6 cents , 1 mil . Answer , by
only a look , 196 , 561 mils . And 196561 mils
, is 19 , 656 cents , 1 mil ; or 1 , 965 florins , 6 cents , 1 mil ;
or 196 pounds , 5 florins , 6 cents , 1 mil . There is then nothing to do in changing one kind of coin into
another . There is no pence table to learn : a person who does not know that 35 mils is 3 cents 5 mils , does not know 35 when he
sees it . All arithmetical calculations of money will be performed exactly
as in the common arithmetic of simple numbers . The first of the thing following expressed examples as a is question in simple of numbers money ; ; the the third second is is the the nearest same
translation into existing money : — 1696 £ f , c . m . £ 13 s . 111 d .
2672 2 6 7 2 2 13 51 3081 3 0 8 1 3 1 7 |
7449 7 4 4 9 7 9 0 _| present app The lication , advantage a child , in the learning of earl thus y units connectin stages , tens of g , education hundreds common , , numeration is etc . easil , is y dealing seen wi . th with At an
pure those abstractions tens packed . in He hundreds never see , etc s the . An lowest abacus units may packed be used in tens , on , which to make believe that a bead on the second rod is of the same and this abacus is useful
value as ten beads on the first rod ; a very hel if it p . coul But d be the taken illustration from real would things be . a Learnin hundred g times to count more money forcible , in
a decimal coinage , would be learning the first operations of all arithmetic .
education It has throug been frequentl hout Great y asserted Britain , that not in of arithmetic all the hours merel spent ybut in
, , than on all wasted subjects converted , Rve out into of every discouragement hundred are and wasted annoyance —and — , b worse y the
_enoiig been complexities denied h . The , , of except great our b system loss y those is of in who . money the say much education . that And the this of estimate assertion the poorer is has not of classes never large their ,
with whom arithmetic occupies a larger proportion mastered the scanty first time great the . attention The rules present of of arithmeti the system learner c works are must just in be acquired this called way off , but : — to So a not perfectl soon fairl as y y
new system , —the four-twelve-twenty perplexity of the coinage . There
260 Decimal Coinage.
260 _DECIMAL COINAGE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 260, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/44/
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