SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #460

[david friedman]

At 11:58 AM -0800 12/4/97, kat wrote:
>Bear writes:
>
>
>> P.S.  The pound as a measure of currency is a measure of weight with
>> variable value...
>
>...and is primarily dependent on where you're located.  For example, a
>pound, in London, is currently worth about $1.68; but a pound in Beirut is
>only worth about six-hundredths of a penny...
>
>	- kat (who wishes she didn't have to know all this stuff, really...)

The pound started out meaning a pound of silver pennies (the Carolingian
monetary reform). It's been downhill from there.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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