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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 06:16:06 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I want to invent a currency that has a coin worth 1/3rd of a dollar, just to punish programmers

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 08:17:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Jernej Simončič �
     • Fi 🏳️‍⚧️

     @jernej__s @munin yeah. that's why modern computers are so crap. you can't set the dial to pounds/shilling/pence. I should make one of those dials for my main PC

   • Fi 🏳️‍⚧️ (munin@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 08:18:00 JST Fi 🏳️‍⚧️

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     @foone

     under the Lsd system, tuppence is a sixth of a shilling, and then there's 20 shillings to the pound....

   • Jernej Simončič � (jernej__s@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 08:18:00 JST Jernej Simončič �

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     • Fi 🏳️‍⚧️

     @munin @foone I remember seeing a picture of a rotary switch on an IBM mainframe that let you choose between 4 ways to encode UK currency.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 08:18:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Hugo Mills

     @darkling aww. Thank you for trying to make it more interesting, though

   • Hugo Mills (darkling@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 08:19:00 JST Hugo Mills

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     @foone A few years ago, the company I worked for wrote an internal currency (customers buy credits, get charged credits for accessing data).

     I argued for accounting in 1/840 ths of a full credit, because it's 2³·3·5·7.

     But no, we went with milli-credits (1/1000) instead. :(