| Prior to decimalization, the pound was divided into twenty shillings, each shilling into twelve pennies and each penny into four farthings. |
| Following the political union of Lower and Upper Canada in 1841, two significant developments helped to simplify things: decimalization and the introduction of government notes. |
| The 10 shilling note was replaced by the 50 pence coin during the process of decimalization. |
| These deal with the smoothing of public amounts converted into euros, the decimalization necessary for the introduction of the euro in public-sector computer software and the price indications on measurement devices. |
| Mouton's proposal contained three of the major characteristics of the metric system: decimalization, rational prefixes, and the Earth's measurement as basis for a definition. |
| Domowitz replied that some types of compensation are changing already, for example, with decimalization in the United States. |
