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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;I Like Trees, post: 290010, member: 10463&quot;]<b>Are you sure time is base 10?</b></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">Watch the </font><font size="4">video</font><font size="4"> in YouTube&nbsp; <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5590449360032835228&amp;q=Australia+decimal&amp;total=2&amp;start=0&amp;num=10&amp;so=0&amp;type=search&amp;plindex=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5590449360032835228&amp;q=Australia+decimal&amp;total=2&amp;start=0&amp;num=10&amp;so=0&amp;type=search&amp;plindex=0" rel="nofollow">HERE.</a></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><font size="2">Moral of the film: doing maths with units different to one&#039;s counting system (pounds, shillings, pence vs 0-9 counting) is needlessly difficult.</font></font></p><p><font size="4"><font size="2"><br /></font></font></p><p><font size="4"><font size="2">When the unit changes at the same point as the decimal, it makes things less complicated. Hurray for everyone!</font></font></p><p><font size="4"><font size="2"><br /></font></font></p><p><font size="4"><font size="2">What a splendid little ditty! I shall be humming it all week now!</font></font></p><p><font size="4"><font size="2"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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