sverek:

I highly recommend to watch "The Imitation Game" movie. It follows the biography of Turing. Glad to see old geeks being recognized by society. Now we need USA to put Dennis Ritchie on their bills.

jbmcmillan:

Probably it is same as Canada but if they refuse are you going to call a cop? They sometimes refuse 100 dollar bills around here not too often but it happens.

Fox2232:

Weird. $100 is around 2250Kc here. And as long as shops have change, they would accept 2000Kc bills no problem. (For me it is inconvenient to carry them in cellphone flip case since they are bit larger than 1000/500/200/100Kc.) But we have even 5000Kc bill. Ours can be found here. 20/50Kc bill has been discontinued in favor of coins. I think it is good to remind people of those of importance lost to the past.

jbmcmillan:

I think it's more that they try to not carry more than 50 in the till because of robbery worries.

scatman839:

Why would they? I've had scottish notes refused a bunch down in england, you can scream legal tender all you want but they won't take it. I'm not calling the police for that lol, the next shop down the road would probably take it no bother. It's up to a shop if they do or do not want your patronage, so 50 notes, scottish notes outside scotland are rarely seen and unknown to a local place, they don't want to accept the possibility of a counterfeit (50 notes being a high target for that, hence many small shops have signs saying no 50s accepted). These aren't much an issue now with chip & pin and contactless, in fact it'd be more suspicious probably now trying to pay for things in £50 or £100 notes

gopher04:

Thats ironic really, we are getting a new plastic £50 note like the rest of them that stays bent..:D:p

XP-200:

while those involved in his case and chemical castration have faded from history, so at least that is something.

anticupidon:

Good trend having famous scientists or inventors on currency.