From: tnusenet17@gmail.com
On 2/15/26 1:40 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>
>
> On 2/15/26 08:55, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:11:51 -0500 (EST), kludge@panix.com (Scott
>> Dorsey) wrote:
>>
>>> Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:19:59 -0500 (EST), Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "A penny's worth of better algorithm is worth a million dollars
>>>>> worth of better hardware."
>>>>> -- gus baird
>>>>
>>>> Was that back when programmers were being paid pennies to program
>>>> computers worth millions of dollars?
>>>
>>> Yes, as opposed today when programmers are paid pennies to write
>>> programs run on millions of computers each worth only a few dollars.
>>
>> Then shouldn't the "penny" be adjusted for inflation?
>
> Yes but the US Penny is being eliminated due to cost. Last I read
> was about
> 4.6 cents to make each penny. And it is now mostly zinc so not a
> copper's worth.
>
Whatever it costs to make, this little blurb has gotten through my
mental media filters to mildly annoy me[1]. The way the media I've seen
tosses this out there[2], it's presented as a self-evident fact that a
penny should never cost more than 1 cent to make.
Should it cost less than 10 cents to make a dime? Less than a dollar to
make a dollar bill?
And if a penny gets used 10 times, is it worth 10 cents? If it gets used
100 times, is it worth a dollar?
And how much "should" it cost to make a nation's currency secure from
counterfeiting, duplication, etc?
Tony
[1] Only mildly annoyed, and even some of that annoyance is the fact
that this slipped through my filters.
[2] Not you - just using this opportunity to jump in.
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