That being said, a pound is so worthless today that the difference between 1/60th of a pound and 1/100th is meaningless; it would just be a rounding error in most calculations.
I suspect that all fractions of a £ will go the way of the shilling in the next 30 years.
I also read that Babylonians or whoever it was, used a system with base 60, even better divisible.
I wonder how it would affect our daily lives, if we still had such better divisible numbers in use with money today. For example 60 cent make a euro or dollar or whatever. Of course then it might not be called "cent" any longer.
In essence, perhaps not all ideas of such an old system were bad in principle.
For example, instead of having screen details in sqcm (and aspect ratios), we have inches (and maaaaybe aspect rations mentioned somewhere). This is being pushed <<everywhere>> around the world because of freaking device screens.
It's like a comment about I saw about nature: if we see a rodent eating a bug, that's a bit gross but it's ok (the rodent being a mammal and therefore closer to us, so "superior"), but if we saw a bug eating a rodent, we're appalled. Right now the US imperial measurement system seems like that bug trying to eat the rodent (metric/decimal system).
The nature (good/bad) of the thing being pushed is. The imperial system is objectively inferior since the metric system has been created.
Countries other than the UK had done that step (for currency) centuries before Britain too.
Here is some background: "How Britain converted to decimal currency" -- https://www.bbc.com/news/business-12346083
Also,
> the benefit wasn't for humans (who prefer working in 12's)
I'm not sure what people you know, I don't know anyone who would prefer base 12. That seems like a very bold claim to me - I think I would like to see some evidence for it.
If you divide the day in 10, let's call it decile, you would say see you in a decile instead of 2.43 hours.
As a side effect, 2.43h is actually 2h and less than 30 minutes and not 2h and 43 minutes (unintuitive), while 0.41 decile would probably be 41 centile, so conversion would be easier.
It is clear that illiterate people could work in "old money" fine. I suspect this is like the darts players who can do the mental arithmetic involved in a darts match fine, but would consider themselves "bad at maths". It's a learning cliff, but like any learning cliff, it no longer matters once you've climbed it.
Would probably be called a sextant, which would raise a few eyebrows in British politics if history is to go by.