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Re:Choice on Units of Measurement: Markings and Sales [pdf] by bediger4000 on Friday June 03, 2022 @08:53PM (#31615700)
Would the UK go back to imperial money as well? The system of guineas, crowns, pounds, quids, shillings, pence and farthings is really well-suited to the feudal system that Rees-Mogg and Johnson seem to admire and want.

Would using imperial money let merchants do dark patterns better? Like the USA pricing gasoline to the mill, $4.499 feels a lot less than $4.50.

Re:Choice on Units of Measurement: Markings and Sales [pdf] by mytailorisrich on Saturday June 04, 2022 @05:02AM (#31618356)
In the UK gasoline is also priced to the thousandth: prices are in pence per litre with one decimal point. E.g. at the moment you might see "182.9" for diesel, which of course means £1.829 per litre.

I suspect this comes from a time when a Pound was a lot compare to the price of petrol...

Re:Choice on Units of Measurement: Markings and Sales [pdf] by drekipus on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:02PM (#31616158)
How would imperial money be more suited to a feudal system?
Re:Choice on Units of Measurement: Markings and Sales [pdf] by frutiger on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:57PM (#31616524)
If my memory of AoE2 serves, there’s even an entire Age between them.