decimalisation

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Noun1.decimalisation - the act of changing to a decimal system; "the decimalization of British currency"
change - the action of changing something; "the change of government had no impact on the economy"; "his change on abortion cost him the election"
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decimal

(ˈdesiməl) adjective
numbered by tens. the decimal system.
noun
a decimal fraction. Convert these fractions to decimals.
ˈdecimalize, ˈdecimalise verb
to convert from a non-decimal to a decimal form.
ˌdecimaliˈzation, ˌdecimaliˈsation noun
decimal currency
a system of money in which each coin or note is either a tenth of or ten times another in value.
decimal fraction
a fraction expressed as so many tenths, hundredths, thousandths etc and written with a decimal point, like this. 0.1 (= 1/10), 2.33 (= 233/100).
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The Spanish system in use in the colonies--cutting dollars into halves, quarters, and eighths, called bits--would have been a natural idea as well, but Jefferson advocated making smaller units decimal fractions of the dollar, arguing that "in all cases where we are free to choose between easy and difficult modes of operation, it is most rational to choose the easy." That made Jefferson the first person in history to advocate a system of decimal coinage, and the U.S.
January of that year saw the first English Channel crossing by air, in a balloon from France with a Frenchman and an American on board; a young Corsican by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte became a lieutenant in the French artillery; and the USA adopted the dollar as a unit of currency -the first nation to use a decimal coinage system.
Machin produced an effigy of the monarch for new decimal coinage in the early 1960s, which appeared from 1968 onwards.
He appreciated the value of timely reform and as a junior minister promoted reforms that included Catholic Emancipation, partial adjustment of parliamentary representation, decimal coinage, railway development, and support for libraries and the arts.
But the trip is unknown territory for him and the days of two-and-a-half-mile specialists winning the National went out with the introduction of decimal coinage.
WE went into decimal coinage and 80 per cent of the British public didn't know anything about it.
The tiara also featured in the portrait introduced at the start of decimal coinage in 1968.
In 1963, he won a competition to design Australia's first decimal coinage and since then he designed coinage and medallions for more than 30 countries.
1966: Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan, above, confirms the decision to change over to decimal coinage in 1971.
Originally, the Tremorfa mill was designed to produce 4,300 tons a week, but modifications in 1959 and 1961 increased the average capacity with culminating in a record 9,000 tons year Conductor puts decimal coins boy off bus A Port Talbot schoolboy faced a long walk home after lessons when he was put off a bus after the driver refused to accept decimal coinage.
(24.) DCB, " Memos, press releases", Decimal Coinage Designs, 30 May 1966.