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Stupid people always seem to assume everyone else is stupid too.

I had just bought my first hand held calculator (Sinclair Cambridge Scientific" for which bank of dad forked out £ 80. I think it was more used for decimal conversions than pure maths.
It was also around the time of rocketing inflation, miner;s strikes, 3 day week and the most idiotic PM ever. With the money saved by not paying for the calculator I was able to buy a used mini-cooper. Selling it was a terrible mistake.

An amazing number of people who voted brexit seriously believed that a part of brexit would be the return of £sd and imperial measures. To thks day most Brits talk about mpg not litres/100km, do not knoww their weight and height in metric and national sport revolves around a distance of 22 yards. The UK is also the only country that talks of small coinage in terms of pee.

#include
#include
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int pound, shilling, pence;
float penceF;
cout>pound;
cout>shilling;
cout>pence;
//Pounds = Pounds + (Shillings/20) + (Pence/20/12);
penceF = (float)((shilling*12)+pence)/240;
pence=penceF*100;
cout= 100){
pound = pound + (pence/100);
pound = pound + (pence/100);
pence = pence%100;
}
cout>shilling;
cout>pence;
//Pounds = Pounds + (Shillings/20) + (Pence/20/12);
penceF = (float)((shilling*12)+pence)/240;
pence=penceF*100;
cout= 100){
pound = pound + (pence/100);
pence = pence%100;
}
cout<<"Decimal Pounds:\x9c"<<pound<<"."<<pence;

return 0;
}

A banana. :-)

What can anyone buy these days with 50p.

I was a lowly bank employee at the time & we were given a 50p by Head Office in celebration of the momentous event.. ;-)

Gwyn we still do now and again :-D

It doesn't seem like 50 years.

For a while, I like many others converted prices back, while trying to assess whether or not something was worth the new price.

It's hard to believe that we would pay much more than 10/- for a little pot of yoghurt.

There's been quite a few coin changes since too

That we were decimalised, I was working in a shop/supermarket, I believe the first supermarket in town, but it was a good place and company to work for.