This reminds me of a rant I once heard against Decimal Currency.
It was on an AA stream a few years ago, ostensibly discussing architecture, but then one of the guests went on a long rant about how Decimal Currency is designed to make your thinking more binary, and in turn exert some control over said thoughts.
I say there's something to this. Pre-1973, you could divide curency into thirds.
This reminds me of a rant I once heard against Decimal Currency.
It was on an AA stream a few years ago, ostensibly discussing architecture, but then one of the guests went on a long rant about how Decimal Currency is designed to make your thinking more binary, and in turn exert some control over said thoughts.
I say there's something to this. Pre-1973, you could divide curency into thirds.
For context.
Under Decimal Currency, you have 100p = £1.
You can divide this by 4, 5, 10, 20, 25 and 50.
Before 1973, you had 240d (pence) = £1.
That was 12d=1s (shilling), and 20s = £1.
This opens up the possibility of dividing by 3.