| Brother, Can You Spare an 18-Cent Piece?

01st Jun 2003

Brother, Can You Spare an 18-Cent Piece?

In other useless news, computer scientist Jeffrey Shallit set his might intellect not to solving hunger or world peace but to the vexing problem of too many coins rattling around in Americans’ pockets. He has calculated that our economy would be 17% more efficient at making change if we replaced the dime with an 18-cent piece. I’m wondering what would be the best thing to call it? Ideas?

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