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In the days of pounds, shillings and pence, strokes rather than decimal points were used to separate �.s.d. e.g. six pounds four shillings and fourpence was written thus, �6/12/4. There was one five-figure quantity of farthings which could be converted into �.s.d. by simply inserting two strokes of a pen. What was it?
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Well, I don't know if this will help. Perhaps I'm way off beam, but I can get close to it, I think, with these 'answers' which lie just either side of a perfect fit:
10104 farthings = �10/10/6
10105 farthings = �10/10/6 1/4
10106 farthings = �10/10/6 1/2
10107 farthings = �10/10/6 3/4
10108 farthings = �10/10/7
10109 farthings = �10/10/7 1/4
Clearly there isn't a perfect fit here, so perhaps the answer lies with higher amounts?
Good luck with this.
10104 farthings = �10/10/6
10105 farthings = �10/10/6 1/4
10106 farthings = �10/10/6 1/2
10107 farthings = �10/10/6 3/4
10108 farthings = �10/10/7
10109 farthings = �10/10/7 1/4
Clearly there isn't a perfect fit here, so perhaps the answer lies with higher amounts?
Good luck with this.
Robert, halfa: I was looking in the same area as the two of you - and getting increasingly frustrated at near misses. I really don't know how we coped with such a barmy currency system, though I think most people my age and older are better at mental arithmetic than our younger counterparts, with all the times tables we'd have done - I went to school long after farthings were abandoned, and used to wonder why the arithmetic books at school had questions like "What is �1/ 9/ 7 3/4 multiplied by 13?" but the teachers just told us it was useful to know how to do it.
I still can't programme the video, though!
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