Hey @histodons, I have a puzzle for you. I'm looking at a payroll register from a cotton mill in 1867 and can't figure out what the columns signify. They're unlabeled. The center column makes sense as amount of money earned, and you'd expect the two to the left to be # of hours worked and rate of pay. But there's no way to combine cols. 1 and 2 in such a way that you get the values in col. 3. Also, the writer uses both superscripts (e.g., 26²) and dashes. I'm stumped.
@LizzieEhrenhalt
https://www.1900s.org.uk/1900s-coins-writing.htm seems to help. column 2 looks like the pay rate, and column 1 looks like the amount of work (in whatever unit), the "exponent" seems to be quarters, i.e. 12²=12.5. so 6/- is 6 shillings and 6/6 is 6 shillings 6 pence, equal to 6.5 shillings.
The sum column seems to be a decimal number.
However, there seems to be a factor 6 involved: either the sum is in a unit of 6 shillings, or the rate is given as the sixfold.
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@histodons @Mela
@LizzieEhrenhalt
So if we look at p.2
Mary Shehan: 26.25 (26¹) * 6.5 (6s6d) /6 = 28.44 hmm slight difference 28.35
Mary Maynard: 26.5 (26²) * 6 (6s0d) /6 = 26.50 ok
W.H.Wheeler: 23.75 (23³) * 7s0d /6 = 27.71 ok
Wallace M.e Villa: 4.5 * 1.58 = 7.11 (apparently when giving decimal, the /6 is already accounted for - same with p.1 Addie Walker 13.5 * .50 = 6.75)
@histodons @Mela
@KarlE @LizzieEhrenhalt @histodons @Mela
This indeed works perfectly.
