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Re:Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (2009) by IanKerr on Sunday October 06, 2024 @03:32PM (#41759579)
Now account for the amount of mental overhead required for the average person to calculate change or coinage of a random amount in base two coins, as opposed to multiples of 5 or 10, and see if your 3.19 coins per transaction really saves you time.
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Re:Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (2009) by aaronax on Sunday October 06, 2024 @03:40PM (#41759654)
One could simply switch to a base 16 numbering system as well!
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Re:Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (2009) by Const-me on Sunday October 06, 2024 @03:51PM (#41759744)
I think the amount of mental overhead with base 2 coins is still less than with the proposed [ 1, 3, 11, 37 ] solution.
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