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From: rae@geaclib.UUCP (Reid Ellis)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Tender Trivia [was Re: $5 notes]
Summary: What Mac software did the "2" pattern on the 2?
Keywords: postscript money
Message-ID: <3576@geaclib.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 89 08:33:45 GMT
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Reply-To: rae@geaclib.UUCP (Reid Ellis)
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kevin@perle.UUCP (Kevin Pickard) writes:
|     How many times  do  the  words  "Bank  Of  Canada"  (or
|"Banque  du Canada") appear on the new style (ie. $2 and $5)
|bills?  (Hint: Answer is greater than two)
|
|     And along similar lines, how many times does the  digit
|'2'  (or  '5')  appear  on  these  same bills?  Do not count
|digits contained within the  serial  number  or  within  the
|interesting  anomalies  discussed  above.   (Hint: Answer is
|greater than four)

Well, I estimate at about 15-20 for "Bank of Canada" and oh, around 7000
"2"s.

Now, for a truly trivial question, how about the name of the Macintosh
application used to render the 2's pattern?   [I once saw a zero-dollar bill
test]  Hint: it was written by a Toronto firm.

I would guess that the same software did the "Bank of Canada" and "Banque
du Canada" patterns, as well as similar patterns on the 5.

Reid
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Reid Ellis
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