A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.
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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
Yes but that's just the exchange rate. In Japan, I presume they mostly quote prices in units of 100 or 1000 Yen.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayTo quote Good Omens:
Note for young people and Americans: One shilling = Five Pee. ...
Two farthings = One Ha'penny. Two ha'pennies = One Penny. Three pennies = A Thrupenny Bit. Two Thrupences = A Sixpence. Two Sixpences = One Shilling, or Bob. Two Bob = A Florin. One Florin and One Sixpence = Half a Crown. Four Half Crowns = Ten Bob Note. Two Ten Bob Notes = One Pound (or 240 pennies). One Pound and One Shilling = One Guinea.
The British resisted decimalized currency for a long time because they thought it was too complicated.
Good thing they eventually saw the light. I was interested to learn that it was actually a plot point in the first Doctor Who episode.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayPretty sure the odd value of the bit is because back when it was in use they didn't divide dollars into cents. A bit wasn't defined as 12.5 cents, it was 1/8 of a dollar. Incidentally, before this conversation, I'd never made the connection between that and pieces of eight.
edited 30th Mar '14 12:47:49 AM by Crowfall
@Luminosity:
Seeing as though we've been asked to drop this, I'm willing to switch to P Ms. However, I am a trained scientist with an Msc who got a distinction in Philosophy of Science. So, I can tell you how incorrect that is.
Post of the Day #696
The tiny unicorn will occasionally rock the machine to make the kids lose and spend more money. Because he's a dick like that.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.My personal fanon is that Earth Ponies dominate the mundane technology tree of Equestria, and most of the Pegasi and Unicorn stuff only really took off because they plundered EP tech pre-Unification and/or via collaborative R&D.
Also technological development is somewhat lopsided because the ponies don't use mass-production on the same scale as humans, and because they have natural 'magic' and strengths that let them skip a lot of human discoveries.
edited 30th Mar '14 6:18:08 AM by AceOfScarabs
The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!


Sounds like a pretty impractical currency.
Seems practical to me. After all, a penny makes less sense than a bit.