But you're just proving my point: you get to 1 pound and 10p before you get to 2 pounds. So you get to a zero, 1.10, before you reach 2. That's the point of decimals that I am not understanding why people are ignoring.
Re:Why is the 0 next to 9, not next to 1?
by scrollaway on Monday April 26, 2021 @01:11PM
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Then you are counting pennies not pounds, so you're still starting at 1.
In other words, you start mentally counting from your smallest unit of precision in use.
This is a fun thought exercise, but what a pointlessly pedantic tangent this thread took…
Re:Why is the 0 next to 9, not next to 1?
by d1sxeyes on Thursday April 29, 2021 @05:44AM
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Absolutely, but then, the thread itself is a bit pointless, and pedantry is a pastime on HN :)
I agree, in practical terms you're counting two things - pennies and pounds. You need a zero for the pennies counter before you need a two for the pounds counter for sure.
But you don't count 'I have one hundredth of a pound, I have one fiftieth of a pound, I have three hundredths of a pound, I have a twenty-fifth of a pound' and so on.
So you'd count out 1 pound and 1p, 1 pound and 2p... 1 pound and 9p, 1 pound and 10p - so you don't need the zero until 10.