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Old 04-24-2017, 08:58 PM   #34
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Default Re: Post Apocalyptic Economics

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Originally Posted by tshiggins View Post
For token denominations, I figured:

100 calories = 1 Centacalorie = 1 "cent"
500 calories = 5 Centacalories = 5 "cents" or a "Nickel"
1000 calories = 1 Kilocalorie = 1 Kaycee, or 10 "cents," or a "dime"

5000 calories = 5 Kilocalories = 5 Kaycees. Also known as a "Min," or a "Foodwage" because this is the minimum amount needed for a hard-working adult human being to survive for a day.
Just wanted to point out that the food calorie we all know and love is actually a kilocalorie. A true calorie would be in the neighborhood a single grain of sugar. Not that the post apocalyptic culture would necessarily know that, but it might cause some who read it to skip a mental gear (as it did me). On the other hand, you're also using centi (10^-2 in SI) as being 1/10 of kilo (10^3), so you aren't using SI prefix standards anyway.
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