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Post by mayfly on May 8, 2017 17:51:19 GMT 1
If they have trouble with that let them try and take £7-6s-  from a £10 😄 |
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Post by upkeep on May 8, 2017 22:01:58 GMT 1
If they have trouble with that let them try and take £7-6s- from a £10 😄 Live in the now Man!!!! |
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Post by oli on May 9, 2017 10:00:58 GMT 1
If they have trouble with that let them try and take £7-6s- from a £10 😄 I'm going to stick my head above the parapet and potentially invite public riducle from the oldies...(but I was born well after 1970 - the hapenny was still in existence but only for a couple of years if you want to work it out) £2-13s-4d I think...? Oli |
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Post by Noberator on May 9, 2017 11:06:30 GMT 1
If they have trouble with that let them try and take £7-6s- from a £10 😄 I'm going to stick my head above the parapet and potentially invite public riducle from the oldies... - the hapenny was still in existence but only for a couple of years if you want to work it out) £2-13s-4d I think...? Oli I was born well before 1970.   So I was taught pounds shillings and pence in school old money as it's now called. Oli's answer is correct in old currency. If the bill was seven pounds six shillings and eight old pence ( £7-6s- ) you could write it like so as well £7/6/8 Now it's been a long time since we went decimal in February 1971 but the symbol for a shilling was s but numbers of shillings were normally written with a dash and a hyphen after the number. Fifteen shillings were written as such 15/- and occasionally as 15s. For amounts of shillings and pennies ie five shillings and two pennies for example was written as 5/2. |
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Post by valhalla on May 9, 2017 23:48:10 GMT 1
Not everything has been a backwards step then? Thank heavens we adopted decimal currency, and the like. I cannot believe the US still use imperial measures, no wonder they struggle in the STEM subjects so badly...  and make a complete hash of their products. I still see prices in guineas up here, though.....  |
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Post by oli on May 9, 2017 23:49:28 GMT 1
I'm going to stick my head above the parapet and potentially invite public riducle from the oldies... - the hapenny was still in existence but only for a couple of years if you want to work it out) £2-13s-4d I think...? Oli I was born well before 1970. So I was taught pounds shillings and pence in school old money as it's now called. Oli's answer is correct in old currency. If the bill was seven pounds six shillings and eight old pence ( £7-6s- ) you could write it like so as well £7/6/8 Now it's been a long time since we went decimal in February 1971 but the symbol for a shilling was s but numbers of shillings were normally written with a dash and a hyphen after the number. Fifteen shillings were written as such 15/- and occasionally as 15s. For amounts of shillings and pennies ie five shillings and two pennies for example was written as 5/2. Oops 1971 we went metric, not 1970 - my mistake. I thought I was walking into a trap there and the answer was going to be zero, or for some reason incalculable. Oli |
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Post by wheelnut on May 11, 2017 0:01:52 GMT 1
Oli is correct, the answer is £2-13s-4d. Now, seeing as we are well off topic, let me tell you about my holiday in Jersey many years ago: There was a place we visited where they had a real Mini that was once owned by John Lennon. (He was a professional musician who once played in a four-piece band called The Beatles). He had the Mini covered in one-penny coins which were glued onto the body. There was a little competition running which asked people to guess the total value of the coins. Most people were guessing thousands of pounds but the correct answer was something like £35. People were forgetting that that the old pound was 240 pennies so £35 was worth 8400 pennies.
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Post by Noberator on May 11, 2017 0:11:43 GMT 1
Oli is correct, the answer is £2-13s-4d. Now, seeing as we are well off topic, let me tell you about my holiday in Jersey many years ago: There was a place we visited where they had a real Mini that was once owned by (He was a professional musician who once played in a four-piece band called The Beatles). He had the Mini covered in one-penny coins which were glued onto the body. There was a little competition running which asked people to guess the total value of the coins. Most people were guessing thousands of pounds but the correct answer was something like £35. People were forgetting that that the old pound was 240 pennies so £35 was worth 8400 pennies. Never heard of him.   |
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Post by valhalla on May 11, 2017 0:18:13 GMT 1
He crashed a Maxi in Scotland, some time back, and made the news when he and his missus survived long enough to get the recovery bill paid-up in full. |
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Post by Noberator on May 11, 2017 0:28:09 GMT 1
He crashed a Maxi in Scotland, and made the news when he and his missus survived long enough to get the recovery bill paid-up in full. It was a long time back in the Summer of 1969 in or around Golspie area. Great musician but apparently his drivng skills didn't match his music ones. |
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Post by valhalla on May 11, 2017 0:33:55 GMT 1
Great musician but apparently his drivng skills didn't match his music ones. Probably a difficult act to follow, I suspect! At least Paul had his wings to get around.... |
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Post by Noberator on May 11, 2017 0:40:43 GMT 1
Great musician but apparently his drivng skills didn't match his music ones. Probably a difficult act to follow, I suspect! At least Paul had his wings to get around.... |
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Post by wheelnut on May 11, 2017 20:31:23 GMT 1
Great musician but apparently his driving skills didn't match his music ones. I believe he had poor eye-sight (seriously). |
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Post by Noberator on May 11, 2017 23:56:36 GMT 1
Great musician but apparently his driving skills didn't match his music ones. I believe he had poor eye-sight (seriously). It was and worse in later life.  |
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Post by valhalla on May 12, 2017 22:27:52 GMT 1
It was and worse in later life. I know how it is. My Mum always said that I would go blind, but I didn't believe her then.....  |
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from a £10 😄
So I was taught pounds shillings and pence in school old money as it's now called. 
and make a complete hash of their products.
