<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Actually, USA has 50c and $1 coins. Not sure if 50c are being minted currently, but $1 are. We also have $2 notes, though they aren't very common (and notes higher than $20).<br><br>I'm not sure I agree that it makes no sense translating money. I think it would be nice to have localized money, enough so that I've considered bringing it up in the past. For the record, the "tux money" looks an awful lot like euros to me, and it's different enough from USA money that my daughter was thrown off by it, and never went back to that game.<br><br>Also, sorry for top posting, but I can't figure out how to get Yahoo to quote properly.<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">-----
Original Message ----<br>From: Samuel Murray <leuce@absamail.co.za><br>To: GCompris developpers list <gcompris-devel@lists.sourceforge.net><br>Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:07:49 PM<br>Subject: Re: [gcompris-devel] Introduction, and money in the game<br><br><div>Yves Combe wrote:<br><br>> All countries have decimal money ? No more sterling of 1/240 of pounds ?<br><br>Most countries that I know of, have decimal money, but not all countries <br>have the same coins. For example:<br><br>ZA coins:<br>1c, 2c, 5c, 10c, 20c, 50c, R1, R2, R5 (I think it's called the Roman <br>system or something, because it follows the Roman numericals)<br>ZA notes:<br>R10, R20, R50, R100, R200<br><br>UK coins:<br>1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1, £2<br>UK notes:<br>£1 (only Scotland and Channel Islands), £5, £10, £20<br><br>USA coins:<br>1c, 5c, 10c, 25c. The 10c isn't called "10c" (it doesn't even have the <br>number "10" on it, but
the word "dime"), and the 25c isn't called "25c" <br>(it is called "quarter dollar", and that is also the wording used on the <br>coin itself). So an American child might not associate a coin with "10" <br>on it with the US 10c coin.<br>USA notes:<br>$1, $5, $10, $20<br><br>So the ZA and the UK have the same intervals between coins and notes, <br>but different values are coins and notes. The USA system follows the <br>same system for its notes, but not for its coins.<br><br>Samuel<br><br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc.<br>Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop.<br>Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser.<br>Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> <a target="_blank"
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