A nickel is smaller and thicker, and has a smooth edge compared to the quarter. Can you not tell the difference?
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CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Then picking the exact correct thing
It can easily tell what item is a coin, but how much that coin is worth is hard for it to do. (Trying to grab a nickel vs a quarter, etc.)
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Zorque@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This guy fishes in his pockets with his hands.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A nickel is smaller and thicker, and has a smooth edge compared to the quarter. Can you not tell the difference?
When you’re jiggling around in your pocket for it and there’s other coins in there too, it becomes harder to do.
I’m not saying there’s a 0% chance of figuring it out by touch alone, just that by touch identifying a coin (vs a not-coin) is a lot easier to do than by touch identifying what amount an individual coin is worth. (In the U.S. at least.)
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Zorque@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When you’re jiggling around in your pocket for it and there’s other coins in there too, it becomes harder to do.
Well, sure. Adding many variables usually makes anything harder to do. But that generally just means it takes a little more effort.
Are your hands horribly mangled or something? Am I bringing up something hard for you to deal with?
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are your hands horribly mangled or something? Am I bringing up something hard for you to deal with?
Hands? It’s horribly hard to fit my trunk into my pockets.
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brokenlcd@feddit.it 2 months ago
Euro coins have different knurling around the edge of the coin for accessibility reasons. It has the side effect of helping a lot when trying to find the right ones blindly in your pocket.
Today@lemmy.world 2 months ago
US coins too. Big, small, thick, thin, smooth, knurled.
khannie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah I could definitely identify each euro coin by feel.