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Decimal Numeration and Decimal Coinage*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

Alexander M. Robertson
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Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , 1854 , pp. 370 - 375
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Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1854

Footnotes

*

The following letters have been obligingly placed at our disposal by Mr. Thomson, and we gladly avail ourselves of his permission to lay them before our readers.

References

page 371 note * It led to so many difficulties, that, by a Royal decree in 1816, the use of weights and measures decimally divided was absolutely prohibited in shops or any kind of retail business.