[SOC] Duh, I pressed the wrong button didn't I?.

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Bonjour � tous,

> Decimalisation (as it was called) in the early seventies was the
> source of a substantial blip in inflation (as the Euro countries have
> discovered) since it was a convenient way for retailers to
> introduce a price rise without being caught out.
> 
> P#529

Yes ... I confirm ... (abt Euro a.s.o.)
The "funniest" part of the game being that with our beloved FRF, the prices 
were "clear/rounded" : 5.90 or 24.00 or 134.25 for the most "strange".
Now, almost all our prices are looking like the "funny" US prices, you know 
these X.99 iso X+1.00 -> 1.42 euro or 34.98 or whatever it can be.
A tip if you come here to buy stamps : one letter up to 20 gr to France and 
most of European countries should wear a stamp of a value of 0.46 euro.
The FRF "old" value for such a letter was 3.00 FRF
Due to the fixed change (1 euro = 6.55957 FRF), 10 stamps which used to be sold 
for 30 FRF will cost you 4.6 euro that is 30.17 FRF
Now just imagine how much stamps are sold each day ...

I want to work in a bank and write a program to catch up those 0.00001 cents ...

So, Mr P and Chris ... keep on the good job with the GBP !!
BTW, I still have a coin of 1 FRF in my "porte-monnaie". Hope it will bring me 
some luck .. some day ...

da-dit-dah.

Claude