Decimal Day old coins were returned to the banks and in this way the bulk of them were quickly taken out of circulation. The new halfpenny, penny, and twopence coins were introduced on 15 February 1971. Within two weeks of Decimal Day, the old penny (1d) and old threepenny (3d) coins had left circulation, and old sixpences were becoming rare. On 31 August 1971, the 1d and 3d were officially withdrawn from circulation, ending the transition period. The government intended that in speech the new units would be called "new pence", but the public decided that it was clearer and quicker to
Decimal enough (for all "n" greater than some natural number "N"). If all "d" for "n" > "N" equal to 9 and the limit of the sequence formula_9 is the decimal fraction obtained by replacing the last digit that is not a 9, i.e.: "d", by "d" + 1, and replacing all subsequent 9s by 0s (see 0.999...). Any such decimal fraction, i.e., "d" = 0 for "n" > "N", may be converted to its equivalent infinite decimal expansion by replacing "d" by "d" − 1, and replacing all subsequent 0s by 9s (see 0.999...). In summary, every real number that