I ran across this on someone's blog as I was doing approvals for NYC Bloggers (sorry whoever it was, I didn't bookmark 'ya): Jeffrey Shallit, a mathematician at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada has figured out that the US should ditch the dime in favor of an 18-cent piece, in order to optimally make change with the fewest coins. You can read the article in Nature, or this article on the Mathematical Association of America's site, or if you really want to get into the math, the original paper.
What's missing of course, in all of this analysis, is the fact that the number 18 is a lucky for us Jews. It has the Kabbalistic significance of being the numeric equivalent of Chai, the Hebrew word for life. (We could call the new coin a "Chai" but people might think we were ordering that tea-drink-thingie at Starbucks or something.) So it's mathematically proven: the Jews are taking over!
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