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Letter: In Brief

Peter B. Dodson
Wednesday 11 August 1999 00:02 BST
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Sir: Do you think that in future Hamish McRae (Business, 6 August) might use British Standard Arithmetic? Mr Micawber's sixpence was 2.5 per cent of pounds 1, not of pounds 20.

PETER B DODSON

Derby

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