I want to invent a currency that has a coin worth 1/3rd of a dollar, just to punish programmers

[foone@digipres.club]

I want to invent a currency that has a coin worth 1/3rd of a dollar, just to punish programmers

[darkling@mstdn.social]

@foone A few years ago, the company I worked for wrote an internal currency (customers buy credits, get charged credits for accessing data).

I argued for accounting in 1/840 ths of a full credit, because it's 2³·3·5·7.

But no, we went with milli-credits (1/1000) instead.

[munin@infosec.exchange]

@foone

under the Lsd system, tuppence is a sixth of a shilling, and then there's 20 shillings to the pound....

[johnefrancis@cosocial.ca]

@foone surely there are some worse options? Maybe a graph-colouring currency.

[jernej__s@infosec.exchange]

@munin @foone I remember seeing a picture of a rotary switch on an IBM mainframe that let you choose between 4 ways to encode UK currency.

[foone@digipres.club]

@jernej__s @munin yeah. that's why modern computers are so crap. you can't set the dial to pounds/shilling/pence. I should make one of those dials for my main PC

[foone@digipres.club]

@darkling aww. Thank you for trying to make it more interesting, though