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Weights and Measures: Britain

The aliquot parts of a dollar commonly used in business are: 50 cts. of $1 20 20 10 66 $6 = 12 cts. of $1 1 है 1 33 1 1 16 The following aliquot parts of a dollar are also used: 25 cts. 12 " 62 66 = of 50 cts. 163 cts. of 33 cts. " 50 66 50 121 61 66 "25 25 66 ENGLISH OR STERLING MONEY 66 6 English money is the currency of Great Britain. The unit is the pound or sovereign.

TABLE. 4 farthings (far.) = 1 penny.......... 12 pence .d. -1 shilling......8. 20 shillings...... 1 pound, or 1 sovereign £ s. d. far. 1-20-240-960.

Scale: 20, 12, 4, } ......

Farthings are commonly written as fractions of a penny. Thus, 7 pence 3 farthings is written 74d.; 5 pence 1 farthing, 54d.

The value of £1 or sovereign is $4.8665 in American gold, and the other coins have their proportionate values.

The coins of Great Britain in general use are:

Gold. Sovereign, half sovereign, and guinea, which is equal to 21 shillings.

Silver. - The crown (equal to 5 shillings), half crown, florin (equal to 2 shillings), shilling, sixpenny and threepenny pieces.

Copper.-Penny and halfpenny.

METRIC SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES The metric system has been adopted by Mexico, Brazil, Chili, Peru, etc., and except Russia and Great Britain, where it is permissive, by all European nations. Various names of the preceding systems are, however, frequently used: In Germany, kilogram = 1 pound; in Switzerland, of a meter = 1 foot, etc. If the first letters of the prefixes deka, hecto, kilo, myria, from the Greek, and deci, centi, mili, from the Latin, are used in preference to our plain English, 10, 100, etc., it is best to employ capital letters for the multiples and small letters for the subdivisions, to avoid ambiguities in abbreviations: 1 dekameter or 10 meters=1 dm.; 1 decimeter or to of a meter1 dm.