Coins of the pound sterling coins' designs. As of 31 March 2016, there were an estimated 30.14 billion coins circulating in the United Kingdom. The first decimal coins were circulated in 1968. These were the five pence (5p) and ten pence (10p), and had values of one shilling (1/-) and two shillings (2/-), respectively, under the pre-decimal £sd system. The decimal coins are minted in copper-plated steel (previously bronze), nickel-plated steel, cupronickel and nickel-brass. The two-pound coins, and, as from 28 March 2017 the new one-pound coins, are bimetallic. The coins are discs, except for the twenty pence and fifty pence pieces, both of which
Decimal and ["x"] amounts to which is either 0, if "d" = 0, or gets arbitrarily small, when "n" tends to infinity. According to the definition of a limit, "x" is the limit of ["x"] when "n" tends to infinity. This is written as formula_7 or which is called an infinite decimal expansion of "x". Conversely, for any integer ["x"] and any sequence of digits formula_8 the (infinite) expression is an "infinite decimal expansion" of a real number "x". This expansion is unique if neither all "d" are equal to 9 nor all "d" are equal to 0 for "n" large