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Re:Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note by sneak on Sunday September 01, 2019 @04:19PM (#20854603)
Something can be in widespread use and not hit the 51% threshold required by “most consumers”.
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Re:Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note by spenczar5 on Sunday September 01, 2019 @04:44PM (#20854781)
Claim 1: there will be no paper money at all.

Counter: obsolete things last longer than you think.

Riposte: obsolete things are not used by most people.

Counter-riposte: still used by many people.

Counter-counter-riposte: technically, many != most.

Somewhere, I think the original point was lost. This has been HN comment theater, the greatest arena of technical-yet-irrelevant correctness you can find.

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Re:Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note by benj111 on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:18PM (#20854979)
Technically, I think you'll find that the new £50 notes won't be made out of paper at all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote

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Re:Alan Turing to be the face of new £50 note by buckminster on Sunday September 01, 2019 @06:10PM (#20855326)
It's all moot anyway. Banks don't issue £50 notes and nobody accepts them.

Which is really very weird because a fifty now is only worth what a twenty was when I started work. And back then twenties were commonplace and fifties weren't especially rare.

I suspect they only exist now to facilitate sketchy payments by HMG.

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