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    Decimal Day (Irish: Lá Deachúil) in the United Kingdom and in Ireland was Monday 15 February 1971, the day on which each country decimalised its respective...
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  • Thumbnail for Decimal time
    divided the day into 10 decimal hours, each decimal hour into 100 decimal minutes and each decimal minute into 100 decimal seconds (100000 decimal seconds...
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    "eight pennies" means specifically eight individual penny coins. Before Decimal Day in 1971, sterling used the Carolingian monetary system (£sd), under which...
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  • have decimalised their currencies, converting them from non-decimal sub-units to a decimal system, with one basic currency unit and sub-units that are...
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    in or around 1503 until 1946, and thereafter in cupronickel. Before Decimal Day in 1971, sterling used the Carolingian monetary system ("£sd"), under...
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    introduction in 1551 until 1947, and thereafter in cupronickel. Before Decimal Day in 1971, sterling used the Carolingian monetary system (£sd), under which...
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  • Thumbnail for Halfpenny (British pre-decimal coin)
    example of a word in the English language that has a silent 'f'. Before Decimal Day in 1971, sterling used the Carolingian monetary system, under which the...
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  • The British decimal one penny (1p) coin is a unit of currency and denomination of sterling coinage worth 1⁄100 of one pound. Its obverse featured the...
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    A decimal computer is a computer that can represent numbers and addresses in decimal and that provides instructions to operate on those numbers and addresses...
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    spoken as "pounds, shillings and pence", is the popular name for the pre-decimal currencies once common throughout Europe. The abbreviation originates from...
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  • pound. It was first issued when the Irish currency was decimalised on Decimal Day, 15 February 1971. It was one of three new designs introduced all in...
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  • equally stressed (§5.2.1.4.3 note) With the code words for the digits and decimal, each syllable is stressed equally. Only the second (English) component...
    72 KB (4,891 words) - 04:30, 19 July 2024
  • were 100 pennies (pence) to the pound. The coin was first issued on Decimal Day, 15 February 1971. It was the second of three new designs introduced...
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    (ahead of other pre-decimal coins) on 1 January 1970, the year before the United Kingdom adopted decimal currency on Decimal Day. During the English Interregnum...
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    then in bronze, which replaced the earlier English farthings. Before Decimal Day in 1971, Britain used the Carolingian monetary system, wherein the largest...
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  • (military term) Decimal Day, the day the UK and Ireland decimalized their currencies Roommates (2006 South Korean film), or D-Day, a horror film D-Day (2013 film)...
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  • the Irish pound, being worth 1⁄50 of a pound. It was first issued on Decimal Day, 15 February 1971. The coin was minted until 2000. It was the third of...
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  • Thumbnail for History of the British penny (1901–1970)
    The British penny (1⁄240 of a pound sterling), a large, pre-decimal coin which continued the series of pennies which began in about the year 700, was...
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  • first English milled coins 1740 Two guineas Since decimalisation on "Decimal Day", 15 February 1971, the pound has been divided into 100 pence. Originally...
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  • The British decimal fifty pence coin (often shortened to 50p in writing and speech) is a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1⁄2 of one pound. Its...
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