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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Op organized by value not size?

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Why I hesitate to support joining the Eurozone:

  1. Czech Koruna coins are arranged by size and metal coolness
    • all currrently valid coins
    • by the way, the rim differs per value: ridged for 1 & 10, 11/13-sided Reuleaux shape for 2 & 20, smooth for 5 & 50
  2. 1 CZK (around 5 US¢) is the smallest, so money is basically counted in integers
  3. they are magnetic and thus easy to fish (edit: ferromagnetic of course)
[–] stray@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Swedish coins are terrible because the sizes and values are all over the place, and the 1 coin and 2 coin are fucking identical. Old people, the people who use cash the most, have to squint at the damn things and ask for help.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The US is terrible. In order from smallest to largest:

  1. dime - 10 cents
  2. penny - 1 cent
  3. nickel - 5 cents
  4. quarter - 25 cents
  5. dollar - 100 cents
  6. 50 cent piece - 50 cents

The penny, nickel, and dime are virtually useless too since they can't buy much, and the 50 cent piece is incredibly rare.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dont worry, all of those are going away

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

:(

All I want is for sales tax to be included in the sticker price. Retailers like to make things near round numbers, so I would hopefully be able to actually use cash without getting a ton of change.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I was making a joke about the us dollar and how its not long for the world

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Ah, I thought you were talking about electronic payments completely taking over.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

magnetic

I highly doubt that, they're probably ferromagnetic (ferrous for short), meaning they're attracted to magnets. If they were themselves magnetic, they would get stuck to each other and be hard to use.

[–] stray@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I believe ferromagnetic is a subset of magnetic rather than a separate class and that calling iron, for example, magnetic is not incorrect. I believe what you're describing are "permanent magnets".

Here are some usage examples:

https://nationalmaglab.org/magnet-academy/plan-a-lesson/magnetizing-and-unmagnetizing/

https://www.meadmetals.com/blog/types-of-magnetic-metals-list

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/nvim3d/eli5_why_are_iron_cobalt_and_nickel_magnetic_but/

e: "Ferrous" refers to iron specifically. Ferromagnetism was named after iron's magnetic property.