Delta Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 I'm currently working on a wee project and was wondering if anyone can tell me the exact conversion system used in the decimal changeover. I've googled but had no joy. All I really need to know is how the rounding was done, what was rounded up, what was rounded down. My guess was that anything lower than 0.25np would be rounded down and anything 0.25np or over would be rounded up to 0.5np. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 HTH Decimalisation in the UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hussulo Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 and if your looking for pre-decimal coins and their equivalent values, I've now added this page to CoinsGB: http://www.coinsgb.com/Predecimal_Coins_an...lent_value.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted April 19, 2009 Report Share Posted April 19, 2009 I think in a lot of cases it was less a case of rounding down or up to the nearest and more a case of putting a higher price on all together. I've heard many of the older generation complain about how prices went up with decimalisation (much in the same way that they did in Ireland when they switched to the euro!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottO Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 that happened everywhere with the euro though... but yea, shops went about making a bit of money by rounding up instead of down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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