Wednesday, November 16, 2005
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The English equivalent of pounds

We have recently had a research article accepted for publication in a major journal (a link to the page proofs can be found here: pdf version, although the link may break as lab pages are being adjusted). One of the final editorial queries was a request for currency conversion:

"Wherever you list the monetary amounts that people were paid to participate, you list it only in pounds. We'll need the English equivalent, which we will place in parentheses."

It's true, we did list the amounts only in pounds (people were paid £3 for participating in our experiments reported in the paper). But I had a terrible time trying to find a conversion from British pounds to the English equivalent. For future reference, today's exchange rate seems to be 1.000000, which in a strange coincidence appears to be exactly the same as the rate for Welsh and Scottish currency.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 11:11:16 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [3]  | 
Thursday, November 17, 2005 12:51:12 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Perhaps the request intended to convert Roman Pounds £ or lb. (454 g) to Imperial Stones (approx. 6356 g) for a conversion of 0.071428571 stone per pound.
The Noblesvillian
Thursday, November 17, 2005 1:01:59 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
STOP THE PRESSES!
Please amend the noted passages which should now read "Participants were paid £3 (0.214 stone)."
The Dunce
Sunday, November 20, 2005 2:12:25 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
The above read without context makes me think of kidney stones. What unpleasant compensation.
The Noblesvillian
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