Actually … it’s because for many years until Decimalisation (15th February 1971) 240 pennies made £1, not 100, and so calling it a word that derives from the Latin word for hundred would have been utterly stupid.
And why was a £1 = 240p? Probably the same reason there are 360^o in a circle; it divides by a lot of whole numbers.
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Actually … it’s because for many years until Decimalisation (15th February 1971) 240 pennies made £1, not 100, and so calling it a word that derives from the Latin word for hundred would have been utterly stupid.
And why was a £1 = 240p? Probably the same reason there are 360^o in a circle; it divides by a lot of whole numbers.
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