Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoTIL the pound was named because 240 Sterlings (pennies) weighed a pound.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1314arrow-down14file-text
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minus-squareada@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·3 days agoIf the only significance of 240 sterlings is that it weighs a pound, then it seems likely the pound would have been a pound, whatever number of sterlings it happened to be…
minus-squareWorx@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·3 days agoIt used to be 240 pence to a pound, before decimalisation (when it was updated to 100p to a pound because we were no longer insane)
minus-squareSpaceCowboy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 days agoImplying Brits are no longer insane?
minus-squareWorx@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoNot in the same way, certainly. Several of us are even using the metric system now!
minus-squareSpaceCowboy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoSo a few milligrams less insane then? :P
minus-squareparaphrand@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agohttps://youtu.be/_yE-wA24xJ8
minus-squareADTJ@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 days agoLike calling the numbering system base 10. It would be base 10 regardless of the number of units
minus-squaretigeruppercut@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoBut what if I like counting by making hash marks on a stick? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unary_numeral_system
minus-square__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoThen 10 is when you need a second stick
If the only significance of 240 sterlings is that it weighs a pound, then it seems likely the pound would have been a pound, whatever number of sterlings it happened to be…
It used to be 240 pence to a pound, before decimalisation (when it was updated to 100p to a pound because we were no longer insane)
Implying Brits are no longer insane?
Not in the same way, certainly. Several of us are even using the metric system now!
So a few milligrams less insane then? :P
https://youtu.be/_yE-wA24xJ8
Interesting, thanks
Like calling the numbering system base 10.
It would be base 10 regardless of the number of units
But what if I like counting by making hash marks on a stick?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unary_numeral_system
Then 10 is when you need a second stick