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Who knew that Marriott Edgar also wrote most of the tales of "yoong Albert Ramsbottom" for Stanley Holloway? Anyway, in the palmy days when bird's-eye maple might have been bought that cheaply fractions of pence would probably have been required whether there were 100 or 240 to the pound. There are lots of hints of both systems; that's the problem. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 21:56, 3 June 2008 (UTC) | Who knew that Marriott Edgar also wrote most of the tales of "yoong Albert Ramsbottom" for Stanley Holloway? Anyway, in the palmy days when bird's-eye maple might have been bought that cheaply fractions of pence would probably have been required whether there were 100 or 240 to the pound. There are lots of hints of both systems; that's the problem. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 21:56, 3 June 2008 (UTC) | ||
And on reflection, Leonardo currently resides in a personal Heaven, where all the materials and equipment he needs fall out of the sky and onto his workbench in such a manner that the last thing he needs worry about is costing. So maybe he's got a little bit out of practice at the ol' quantity surveying, or he remembers the prices as they were prior to his being invited to come and live as a permanent guest in a ''house'' where his imagination ''arrests'' him to the workbench...--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 08:46, 4 June 2008 (UTC) | |||
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This is interesting, as the money reference used is in the old pre-decimal British: if Leonardo is costing his project in £sd, this lends weight to the idea (as gleaned from evidence in Making Money) that Ankh-Morpork's currency system is £sd rather than decimal. --AgProv 09:24, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Who knew that Marriott Edgar also wrote most of the tales of "yoong Albert Ramsbottom" for Stanley Holloway? Anyway, in the palmy days when bird's-eye maple might have been bought that cheaply fractions of pence would probably have been required whether there were 100 or 240 to the pound. There are lots of hints of both systems; that's the problem. --Old Dickens 21:56, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
And on reflection, Leonardo currently resides in a personal Heaven, where all the materials and equipment he needs fall out of the sky and onto his workbench in such a manner that the last thing he needs worry about is costing. So maybe he's got a little bit out of practice at the ol' quantity surveying, or he remembers the prices as they were prior to his being invited to come and live as a permanent guest in a house where his imagination arrests him to the workbench...--AgProv 08:46, 4 June 2008 (UTC)