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[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, it shouldn't happen in a release. But, if I had a penny for every time I've seen the last minute development that wasn't tested yet and not even due for the current release squeezed in. I'd literally have a pound, or dollar or whatever else has 100 pennies in.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

or whatever else has 100 pennies in

Well it'd be 8 shillings, 4 pence, in pre-decimal British currency.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I sometimes suspect that the push for decimalisation was in part to avoid having to teach computers the old system.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Afaik it actually was, the UK wanted to move more financial calculations to computers and it was a lot easier to use a decimal currency for that

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

Programming a robust global date-time system and having a transparent conversation between metric and *imperial/traditional" units is just a warm-up to show that you can work with the truly demented currency system. Make sure everything is rounded off to the nearest whole ha'penny.