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Ryath

So those who live in more enlightened times ~15.5°C in -45.5°C weather

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except me lol

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Look, all we needed to know was that +60°F > -50°F. :cool:

OldRio

Ryath wrote: »

So those who live in more enlightened times ~15.5°C in -45.5°C weather

We, of a certain age, also learnt about chains rods and furlongs.
240 pennies in a punt. Shillings and sixpence and threpney bits also were legal tender. Farthings and half farthings also.

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OldRio wrote: »

We, of a certain age, also learnt about chains rods and furlongs.
240 pennies in a punt. Shillings and sixpence and threpney bits also were legal tender. Farthings and half farthings also.

Not forgetting crowns, half crowns and guineas.

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Realt Dearg Sec

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Not forgetting crowns, half crowns and guineas.

I was always under the impression there was a half crown, but no crown.

Emmersonn

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

I was always under the impression there was a half crown, but no crown.

A crown was 5 bob

ohnonotgmail

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

I was always under the impression there was a half crown, but no crown.

It seems you are right. It was the british that had a crown coin and a half crown we only had the half crown.

Emmersonn

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

It seems you are right. It was the british that had a crown coin and a half crown we only had the half crown.

And don't forget the Florin with the salmon on it.

ohnonotgmail

Emmersonn wrote: »

And don't forget the Florin with the salmon on it.

I was only a baby when decimalisation occurred so dont remember using the pre-decimal coins. The 10p piece that was introduced with decimalisation was just a copy of the old florin coin with the 2s removed and 10p added in its place. there was still plenty of florin coins around though long after decimalisation, the same with the old shilling coin.

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Emmersonn wrote: »

And don't forget the Florin with the salmon on it.

For many years I assumed Florin was an Irish word, but it was used throughout Great Britain and it originates from Middle English for a Florentine coin.

Ipso

OldRio wrote: »

We, of a certain age, also learnt about chains rods and furlongs.
240 pennies in a punt. Shillings and sixpence and threpney bits also were legal tender. Farthings and half farthings also.

Is it true the reason we done multiplication tables up to 12 in national school due to 240 being a multiple of 12?

Realt Dearg Sec

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

I was only a baby when decimalisation occurred so dont remember using the pre-decimal coins. The 10p piece that was introduced with decimalisation was just a copy of the old florin coin with the 2s removed and 10p added in its place. there was still plenty of florin coins around though long after decimalisation, the same with the old shilling coin.

I came along after decimalisation but I remember that halfpennies would show up in your change and down your couch for a long time, right into the nineties. When I was in primary school the maths books all had new editions where they had basically printed the same sums for learning about money but they just removed all the half-penny parts from them. So anyone who had an older edition in the class would just be told to ignore that, and do the sums without them. Back then they didn't change the books to new editions every year for the craic, of course, but that's a rant for another day!

wexie

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

For many years I assumed Florin was an Irish word, but it was used throughout Great Britain and it originates from Middle English for a Florentine coin.

The currency symbol for the Dutch guilder was fl or hfl. For Florijn.

The reason it was called a guilder or gulden is also after the fiorino d'oro or golden florin.

Gulden means golden so they become golden florins. For some reason only the golden was kept in popular use

ohnonotgmail

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

I came along after decimalisation but I remember that halfpennies would show up in your change and down your couch for a long time, right into the nineties. When I was in primary school the maths books all had new editions where they had basically printed the same sums for learning about money but they just removed all the half-penny parts from them. So anyone who had an older edition in the class would just be told to ignore that, and do the sums without them. Back then they didn't change the books to new editions every year for the craic, of course, but that's a rant for another day!

their was a decimal halfpenny as well that was in use until the late 80's

Realt Dearg Sec

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

their was a decimal halfpenny as well that was in use until the late 80's

Sorry yeah I was a bit confused on that issue, you're right, the halfpenny I'm talking about was post-decimalisation. I hadn't realised it stayed in circulation until 1987. It was another very beautiful coin, with another very elaborate bird design, like the 1p and 2p.

Today I learned there were once half-pennies.

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What about the Ha'penny Bridge? I'd say you just didn't put two and two together.

Two and two is four, NH!

I dunno, I guess I thought that was just a name. Though now I'm thinking about it, I think I knew there were halfpennies somewhere in the back of my mind. I just never gave much thought to it and it seems too ridiculous a denomination to have actually really existed.

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Candie wrote: »

Two and two is four, NH!

Wow. I can tells yowe gon to collage! :pac:

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Candie wrote: »

Two and two is four, NH!

I dunno, I guess I thought that was just a name. Though now I'm thinking about it, I think I knew there were halfpennies somewhere in the back of my mind. I just never gave much thought to it and it seems too ridiculous a denomination to have actually really existed.

I used farthings - two to a half penny!

*head 'spoldes!*

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Candie wrote: »

*head 'spoldes!*

A gross of apples costs £1 2s 3¼d, how much would a dozen cost? Standard sums at primary school.

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Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

A gross of apples costs £1 2s 3¼d, how much would a dozen cost? Standard sums at primary school.

1s 10¼d approximately. £1 2s 3¼d does not divide evenly by 12. Do i win a prize?

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ohnonotgmail wrote: »

1s 10¼d approximately. £1 2s 3¼d does not divide evenly by 12. Do i win a prize?

Yes, I didn't actually work it out, as it was just an example but a prize wings it's way to you if you did it without a calculator or reverting to decimals.

ohnonotgmail

Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: »

Yes, I didn't actually work it out, as it was just an example but a prize wings it's way to you if you did it without a calculator or reverting to decimals.

Well i did convert the total to pennies, divided by 12, and then converted back to s and d. in my head of course

mzungu

A tiny bit of oil can calm a small section of choppy water!

Oil molecules do not clunk together when put into water, instead they are spread out over a large area to form a layer that is only one molecule thick. The oil molecules flip over on their negatively charged heads and stand on top of the positively charged water particles. This is why the oil spreads out across the waters surface to form a film over it. This means you can calculate the size of a single molecule of oil by doing it.

The wind builds up waves by getting traction on the waters surface and moving it, but the layer of oil molecules on top of the water now acts as a blocker for the winds traction. This will move the layer of oil instead of creating waves.

The video below shows it in action on a lake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2H418M3V6M

Capt'n Midnight

British secret agents have a license to kill.

Well not exactly, it's on a one to one basis and only if his boss first obtains a Class 7 authorisation, agreed by a management board and various operations directors, which is then signed by the Foreign Secretary and reviewed by a judge.


So it's a lot more Harry Palmer than 007.