Another excuse for more failures:-)

I found it very confusing in France in the 1960s. De Gaulle had revalued the Franc in 1960, but, while things were priced in New Francs, the people thought and spoke in Old Francs, which were equivalent to one centieme in the new system.

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Colin Bignell
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Whilst I do accept now that the correct time is 52.3, don?t diss 5.77 mph before you?ve run an ultra! The question doesn?t give any indication of how long the runner is running for.

Tim

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Tim+

No, that EVERYONE didn't do that FREQUENTLY.

Yes but not EVERYONE personally did the grocery shopping. In most households one individual did the grocery shopping.

That is actually a fact.

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Rex Jones

And I was rubbing your nose in the fact that that wasn't EVERYONE.

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Rex Jones

Ha ha yes, so that you would overhear people in bars talking about their million-franc houses.

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Tim Streater

Oh shut up Wodney. You're such a pedantic bore.

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Tim Streater

Unlike folk who insist on feeding trolls?

Tim

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Tim+

But the codepoint is a separate matter from the font used to display it. The middle-dot is C2 B7 in UTF8. That's a defined character which might then be bolded or italicised if the font supports that.

Meanwhile we have EF 83 97 in UTF8 which is what was in the file, a character with no predefined symbol. The question, then, is how various platforms know what symbol to actually display, in whatever font the user selected.

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Tim Streater

Our neighbours in Brittany did that in the 1990s!

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Steve Walker

Well at that speed he was on track for a three and a half minute mile, so I am guessing his total time running was 52.3 secs!

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John Rumm

They did it every day (if they had money to count).

That counts as frequently.

No, that's not necessarily correct. Plenty of non-heads of household were sent grocery shopping with a bag, a written list and a certain amount of money (in Lsd form).

Thanks for confirming it.

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JNugent

Only scrouges and scotsmen count their money every day.

Not with non scrouges and non scotsmen and non jews.

Yes, but whoever it is in the household that does the grocery shopping, that isn't EVERYONE IN THAT HOUSEHOLD.

Even sillier than you usually manage and thats saying something.

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Rex Jones

Furniture and TV sets were priced in guineas.

Bill

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williamwright

I?m sure it was. A bit faster than I can run 440 yards for sure. ;-). Last time I tried I was 90 seconds.

Tim

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Tim+

:-)

You are so persuasive.

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JNugent

Because it was done on a Windows computer and they expected everyone else to have one running the exact same version of Word that they had.

SYMBOL.TTF is standard issue on all winders [k/sh]it.

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The Natural Philosopher

Not on mine...

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The Natural Philosopher

Well that is a bit parochial. I was very keen to know the dollar exchange rate because an aged great aunt lived in the USA and used to send us $5 on our birthdays...

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The Natural Philosopher

FSVO 'Clive Sinclair' ' calculator' and 'scientific'

(He didn't design it he didn't program it, and the f****ng things did not work).

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The Natural Philosopher

5.77mph is a slow trot or jog. I used to do a 2mile cross country at around 10mph as a teenager

Most people in their youth can do up to 15mph in shirt bursts, but to do it over a mile us a real feat.

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The Natural Philosopher

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