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RiderOfGiraffes on Oct 24, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Global Impositioning Systems - Is GPS harming our ...

No, they're ukp0.24, or 24p. Your comment is like saying that you've added your 0.02c. Two cents is $0.02.

In case it is the souce of your confusion, UKP is "UK pounds sterling" and "p" is "pence". There are 100p in 1 UKP.

ig1 on Oct 24, 2009 [–]

Ah ok that makes sense :-)

The general market standard seems to be to use GBP for pounds and GBX (sometimes GBp) for pence, so the ukp threw me

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