unjonharley wrote:The bar is the only place safe from those little snot pickers.. Right now, they are in schools trading germs.. Soon the toxic little bastards will be touching everything in the stores..
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hhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............Patsh wrote:anyway, eight bits is two bucks...
My mistake... just looked it up, to find a bit is 12-1/2 cents, ergo, eight bits IS a buck, besides also being a byte.ygmir wrote:hhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............Patsh wrote:anyway, eight bits is two bucks...
I will put forth that it was actually silver, 8 reales, spanish dollar coins, aka pieces of eight. Perhaps the practice was also used with the latter day U.S. gold dollars.Elliot wrote:Gold Dollar coins where cut into halves, quarters and bits for lack of smaller coins. (Back when 12 1/2 cents could actually buy something.)
I think they were lumpy irregular things for the most part, you'd probably have been o.k. at it. Matter of commonly held agreement that each thing would be seen as equal.theCryptofishist wrote:I know that I would have been one of those awkward early americans who cut my 8-real piece into two pieces: one about 7/16ths and the other about 5 of the same.
I might have been a natural clipper of coins...Elorrum wrote:I think they were lumpy irregular things for the most part, you'd probably have been o.k. at it. Matter of commonly held agreement that each thing would be seen as equal.theCryptofishist wrote:I know that I would have been one of those awkward early americans who cut my 8-real piece into two pieces: one about 7/16ths and the other about 5 of the same.
