On 11/01/2019 12:29, Tim Streater wrote:

Most people could do mental arithmetic back then.


I don't believe that was true unless you regularly handled money or
played darts.

Even with people handling money the trick was not to necessarily
calculate the change but to count it up from the bill amount to the
amount tendered.


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