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Posted by Uncle Pete (89 SE) on September 13, 2002 at 12:49:20:
In Reply to: another easier way on the inches part..... posted by Matt on September 13, 2002 at 12:22:51:
12 pence to a shilling and twenty shillings to a pound. A fifty pence item wasn't fifty pence, it was 'four and two'. The thing that really scares me is that people got confused going FROM lsd TO metric!!! Bonkers!
...and by LSD, I refer of course to librae, solidi, denarii - or pounds, shillings and pence: the pre-1971 British monetary system.