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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
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That claims Russia was the first country to convert its money to decimal units, but interestingly there's no mention of China.
China's money has had decimal units for thousands years - 1 yuan = 10 jiao = 10 fen
When the UK converted, my mother rescued an old mechanical desktop £sd comptometer from the scrap heap. After she died we donated it to a now defunct local museum, I was told it subsequently went to Bletchley Park.
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