<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Ill be damned if I have to lug around 2 and 8 cent coins. A vending machine will steal your $5 coin, as <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0 class=mark>Sacagawea</SPAN> and Susan B. Anthony will testify. How about a sales tax coin you pay on every dollar of tax? Like a forever stamp.</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1@frontier.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Vision2020 discussions <vision2020@moscow.com> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tuesday, December 18, 2012 8:55 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Vision2020] New American binary money<BR></FONT></DIV><BR> While thinking about other things, it just occurred to me that American money could be improved by replacing the coins and bills with binary-denominated amounts. There would be five coins, starting with a two-penny
coin, and each subsequent coin would be worth four times its predecessor. So, 2 cents, 8 cents, 32 cents, 128 cents, and 512 cents. The bills would follow a similar pattern, with 2, 8, 32, 128, and 512 dollar bills. And, yes, the value of the smallest bill is four times the largest coin. Five coins and five bills should fit into the usual cash register configurations for those who decline to do business with a hand-wavy electronic device picking up a product bar code and then extracting monetary bits from a customer account.<BR><BR> The idea of an almost five-dollar coin should make the vending machine community perk up, and the idea of receiving a single-bill compensation rate per week, and not being below the poverty level, is a novelty not recently experienced in this country.<BR><BR><BR>Ken<BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR>serving
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