Metric Rules or Does it Really? - Paul Sellers' Blog

I worked through school when there were 20 shillings in pound, 12 pennies in a shilling and thereby 240 pennies made a pound. Within that structure we also had farthings, 4 to a penny. half pennies, threepenny bits, sixpenny bits, half crowns and so on. Was it complicated? Not really. I found it quite simple. … Metric Rules or Does it Really? Read More »...