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Fun fact: In some fields in the UK (such as horse racing and the sale of livestock) we still use the Guinea, a unit of account that went out of use in all other fields over 200 years ago
A Guinea is 21 shillings or, in modern currency, £1.05
@troubleMoney I'm biased towards metric anyway, but that sounds exactly the kind of measure chosen to be as obtuse to work with as possible.
@BatElite there's a fair bit of history behind why it's £1.05, but yeah, inconvenient
@troubleMoney Yep! It's sort of weird but I enjoy writing my sales in guineas. It makes me feel very connected to my 19th century farm.