[gcompris-devel] Introduction, and money in the game

[Peter Hoff]

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).

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.

Also, sorry for top posting, but I can't figure out how to get Yahoo to quote properly.

----- Original Message ----
From: Samuel Murray <leuce at absamail.co.za>
To: GCompris developpers list <gcompris-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:07:49 PM
Subject: Re: [gcompris-devel] Introduction, and money in the game

Yves Combe wrote:

> All countries have decimal money ? No more sterling of 1/240 of pounds ?

Most countries that I know of, have decimal money, but not all countries 
have the same coins.  For example:

ZA coins:
1c, 2c, 5c, 10c, 20c, 50c, R1, R2, R5 (I think it's called the Roman 
system or something, because it follows the Roman numericals)
ZA notes:
R10, R20, R50, R100, R200

UK coins:
1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1, £2
UK notes:
£1 (only Scotland and Channel Islands), £5, £10, £20

USA coins:
1c, 5c, 10c, 25c.  The 10c isn't called "10c" (it doesn't even have the 
number "10" on it, but the word "dime"), and the 25c isn't called "25c" 
(it is called "quarter dollar", and that is also the wording used on the 
coin itself).  So an American child might not associate a coin with "10" 
on it with the US 10c coin.
USA notes:
$1, $5, $10, $20

So the ZA and the UK have the same intervals between coins and notes, 
but different values are coins and notes.  The USA system follows the 
same system for its notes, but not for its coins.

Samuel




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