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excalibur on Oct 6, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? (2009)

People need to be able to quickly do the math in their heads to make change. More efficient use of coins but harder for everyone involved is not a functional improvement.

im3w1l on Oct 6, 2024 [–]

Some of the proposed schemes seem acceptable from that point of view, in particular 1, 3, 10, 25.

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