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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 63395, member: 57463&quot;]What is that, one-seventh take away one-fortyninth?&nbsp; Who makes up these numbers?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Is there any reason why a &quot;Dollar&quot; could not have been 20 pennyweights or 30? or 50 for that matter?&nbsp; What would have been so darned diffcult about a UK Sovereign and a US Half Eagle both being <u>exactly</u> one-fourth of an ounce?</p><p><br /></p><p>The U.S. system was supposed to be &quot;decimal&quot; but we have a quarter dollar.&nbsp; OK, I can accept that, I guess, but in German states, they had a nice ancient progression with 1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, and 1/6.&nbsp; Why stop there?&nbsp; Ten coins, from 1 to 1/10 units by arithmetic fractions.&nbsp; Then you could have bar challenges where someone puts down a line of coins and you have to sing the tune...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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