ON A SIMPLE DECIMAL SYSTEM EOR ENGLAND. 
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That is — subtract 120 from 2520. The remainder, after cut- 
ting off one figure, is 240 pence, or 1 1., the value of 25*20 
francs. 
So 7)680*40 francs. 
3)9720 
3240 
Pence 12)6480|0 (cutting off one place). 
540 shillings. 
27 pounds sterling. 
Contrariwise, the conversion of pence into francs and centimes, 
at the exchange of 25*20, is still more simple. All that is 
requisite is to add a twentieth part, after adding zero, and cut 
off two places. Thus — 
64800 pence. 
Addi 3240 
680*40 francs. 
The only trouble really consists in reducing the English money 
into pence, as a starting point. By this very simple method, 
conversion of the one coinage into the value of the other 
renders the question of radical change comparatively indif- 
ferent, unless it can be guaranteed that the rate of exchange 
between France and England shall be invariable. 
The method may be expressed in a very few words. At an 
invariable rate of 25*20 francs for 240 pence, francs may be 
converted into pence by subtracting of the francs, disregard- 
ing the decimal point, and cutting off one figure to the right ; 
and pence be converted into francs by adding a cypher and 
-Jq, and then cutting off two places for the centimes. 
Supposing, however, Parliament consent to reducing the 
standard value of the sovereign nearly two pence in the pound, 
to the value of twenty-five francs, the whole difficulty of a decimal 
notation would be surmounted by the introduction of a new 
coin of the value of ten farthings , to be called a stiver , silver 
'penny , sil , or groat , as advisable ; the sovereign being divided 
into 1,000 farthings, instead of 960. 
NEW MONEY TABLE. 
£ Florins Stivers Farthings 
1 = 10 = 100 1,000 
1 = 10 = 100 
1 = 10 
1 penny = 4 
English money would then acquire a powerful and per- 
spicuous notation of singular simplicity in application, bring- 
