That was when we created the dollar. How many cents?
Right. One hundred.
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On 15 February 1971, known as Decimal Day, the United Kingdom and Ireland decimalised their currencies.
Under the old currency of pounds, shillings and pence, the pound was made up of 240 pence (denoted by the letter d for Latin denarius and now referred to as "old pence"), with 12 pence in a shilling and 20 shillings (denoted by s for Latin solidus) in a pound.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_Day
That must have been the inspiration for Harry Potter:
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29 Knuts make up one Sickle, and there are 17 Sickles in a Galleon.
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https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Muggle...er/Magic/Money
Then to paraphrase a guy on Quora:
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By the way, quick, what's the digital equivalent of 1/3? Ok now write that into a legal document about the boundaries of your property. Hmm. Now split it amongst your two children. Easy to do with fractions. Not so easy with the metric system.
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https://www.quora.com/What-do-Americ...-metric-system
Seifrob, hopefully we have more reasonable contributors than you.