Among those changes were the advent of online brokerages , which lowered the cost of trading and allowed investors to avoid using commission-paid brokers , and decimalization , which narrowed the spread that brokerages could make on trades .
Decimalization of the clock has been tried before , but people seemed to prefer the 24 hour system .
以前人们曾试着把时钟改为十进制,但似乎还是偏爱24小时制。
The effect of decimalization of u.s. stock market on the pricing error of index futures .
美国股市小数化对指数期货定价误差之影响。
In 1981 , it was different : plenty of people were still alive who had been born in the reign of queen victoria ; shillings and florins , left over from before decimalization , still circulated as legal tender .