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The French, say they, have in theory a decimally graduated scale, yet they always reckon by francs, and cents, which are 100ths of francs; the intervening decime being ignored in practice. 'It is now nearly thirty years, says Mr John Quincy Adams, in his report to Congress in 1821, 'since our new moneys of account have been established.
For purposes of common barter, there ought to be a two-cent piece, a four-cent, and perhaps a seven-cent; and thus we shall be compelled to think decimally.
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