OT: Counterfeit Money

Dollars are simply more economical than quarters are. Weight, volume, every aspect except divisibility.

Nearly ALL current vending machines that are not in some back woods gas station.

They were slash ARE the same size and thickness as the current coin and work in the same vending machines, so what is the problem?

A great advantage of slide rules is that they prevent the presenting of calculation results to six decimal places, when the input data is good only to two places.

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Darn! That was my favorite thing to do with calculated results!

How about a roll of dimes?

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Yep, i have gotten to the point where i prefer vendors with "penny buckets" at the cash register. There is often nickels and dimes in there as well and the more savvy merchants are using them to give pennyless change to the customer by taking a penny or three out of the "bucket".

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rule.

I hear you. I remember using some algorithms to get 5 places out of a

10 inch slide rule but i found it no faster than direct pencil and paper. Then i got a book of 5/6 place log tables, beat both previous methods hollow for time.

Use contact cement.

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What a pussy. They barely smile at dollar bill losers. A five is like the minimum.

Could I ever tell a story about when my rich friend form Cinci visited about seven years ago, when my hair was down past my waistline.

If you cannot easily see the size difference or the octagonal strike margin... Oh well.

I've never had a problem with delineation, and that extends to anyone I ever spent them on/to.

I buy my coffee every morning with a dollar coin and 2 quarters, OR 2 dollar coins and get change.

If I took my cup in, I could get it for .89. I should do that as it would save me some dollar coins. :-)

Albert Einstein said that anything one could look up in a table, one should not commit to memory, as it clutters the mind.

Even though I love and collect slide rules, I got and use a calculator because I did not want to clutter my mind any longer with slide rule operational practices. And that is a LOT quicker.

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Yes and yes. Golden color and a smooth edge (tiny printing on the edge, but easily distinguished from ridged edges as on quarters).

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Same color and edge treatment as quarters. You can reach into your pocket and spend them as quarters inadvertently. Or get into a pissing match with a clerk that thinks they are quarters.

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Dollar coins won't stay in dancer's g-strings. I'll be damned if I'm going to start stuffing fives in there.

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That is naughty. either the bucket is for charity or it isn't.

But why bother messing around with small change at all. Bank cards now have sufficiently strong encryption to do instant eCash even for tiny transactions. When the Euro zone switched from various local currencies to the Euro apart from putting all the border money changers out of business overnight it also triggered a switch to using cryptographic eCash. Belgium had a working eCash system called Proton more than a decade ago.

There was plenty of shiny new change in the tills, but in Belgium people found it just as easy to carry 50e on their bank card and pay with that. The handful of metallurgically defective early Euros are much sought after by collectors. eCash requires the card inserted for just a couple of seconds - no pin to type and the overhead charges are minimal so even the bakery would accept it for a loaf of bread.

It was reported in Europhobic Britain as "Europe stops spending" but what actually happened was that the amount of coin and notes needed in circulation decreased as people adopted eCash. UK has largely taken to chip & PIN for larger transactions too so it is just a small step from there to going to eCash. Most shops have card terminals now.

Regards, Martin Brown

In the UK, it isn't. Charity collections generally must use tamper-evident containers labelled with the identity and registration number of the charity.

It's understood that small-change trays are for the benefit of other customers, allowing them to avoid breaking a note for the sake of a few pence.

Then put it in the slot.

Octagonal? Try 12 sided.

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