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DECIMAL COINAGE. 263
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in which , comparisons of the two monies will be wanted . The following * 8 _% are d . a are few 36 15 more mils instances . Here .: are — 35 farthings , say 3 cents , 6 mils .
Bu 125 t 4 _^ . d 3 . d are . are 612 farthings mils , 1 which 3 s . 2 \ d are are 15 660 mils mi , ls or 1 135 cen . t lOd , 5 . mils are . 691 ;
mils . ; . . IV . To convert new money into old . Allow two shillings for each
farthings florin , a shillin , deduc g ting for 1 5 if cen there ts , if he so 25 much or more be of over them , and . Thus call , 7 the florins and res 37 t ,
mils 8 cen over ts , 7 , mils say , or far 787 things mils , , or is 9 14 pence shillings . Again and , 4 a florins shilling , 2 cents , 2 milsor 423 milsis 8 shillings and 23 farthingsor 5 d .
, , Thus 231 mils are 4 s . 7 Jd . , , 281 mils are 5 s . 7 id .
Oh ! we sliall never do such things as these ! Very possibly : there are enoug h , who would be severely puzzled . But what do they
do now ? How do they answer for bills which , contain 11 \ pounds at 1 \ d . p ¦ ound , or \ 3 \ yards at 4 f < r / . a yard ? They trust to the
butcher or the haberdasher , and do their arithmetic by inquiries into character . Persons who cannot do these things should by all means do their best to forward the plan of a decimal coinage : it is
their The onl housekeepers y chance for in ever the being middle able classes to do would anything recoil . in terror from
forward the and questions are a in lways evidence which accura come as tely an every solved instance day . The . bef When ore following their the poor h price as er been of nei brou a gh small bors ght ,
quan charges tity the of tea whole , for farthing instance . , would Now it break may a happen farthing that , the the tradesman bit of a
farthing which , the tradesman thus takes is enough to give the small price quan for ins ti includes t t y ance wanted , three the of -quarters fraction the next of of hi an a g farthing her ounce price of for tea an wh , d a ic t h 3 s l . t he t 2 y d . . t : radesman Suppose the real ,
takes a farthing . Could , the same quantit , y of tea , at 3 s . 6 d ., be got without which is entering daily solve upon d by a many new farthing . We leave ? This it to is those the sort of of our q readers uestion
who can do it . even We without fully believe the two that hours nearl ' work y all which persons we would have proposed do well to enoug them h . ,
The odd farthing in sixpence would be a joke for a week , after which the however some whole min ; d minute s of always the , in old accompanied matters system of _woiild b general large disappear exaggeration habit , . creates But of any an difficulties alarm change in . ,
In the present , case , those who dwell y upon the awkwardness which may and vexation occur for infli a few cted days , think all the nothing of the portion unnecessary of the labor
community . The whole amount upon of trouble younger imposed upon the whole comance munit which y will be that but curse a very of small thing 1 calculators when compared the with table the annoy inflicts - pence
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Decimal Coinage. 263
DECIMAL COINAGE . 263
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 263, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/47/
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