| ▲ | darth_avocado 12 hours ago |
| If the Pennies go away, you can no longer get things for pennies on the dollar. |
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| ▲ | droptablemain 12 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The famous little jingle "shave and a haircut, two bits" Most people today have no clue what a "bit" is. I imagine the future will hold something similar for the penny in all the idioms and cultural phrases we have. What the hell is a penny? |
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| ▲ | retrocog 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Exactly. Two bits is a quarter because the US silver dollar was modeled on the Spanish Pillar Dollar, also called pieces of eight. Hence 2/8 (two bits) = 1/4. | |
| ▲ | fstarship 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It’s kind of like lots of imperial measurements where we use metric still have these in idioms. | | | |
| ▲ | barbazoo 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | What is a bit, a penny? | | |
| ▲ | dec0dedab0de 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 1/8, so 2 bits is a quarter. it comes from old spanish coins that they would cut into eight pieces, or bits. I learned that after watching one of the pirates of the Caribbean movies and googling pieces of eight. | | | |
| ▲ | patrickthebold 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Half a quarter. |
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| ▲ | mtmail 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Soon one can no longer add 2 cents to a discussion. |
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