On: India's Indira canteen: The best meal you can buy ...

[mulvya]

It says, "Each dish costs a mere five rupees, or about 13 cents". Except that, at present, 1 USD = ~65 INR, so more like 8 cents.

[prameya → mulvya]

I think the article is from bbc; so maybe for pound sterling it is 5 cents?

[sk0g → prameya]

England uses Pounds, Shillings and Pence.

[svat → sk0g]

Not since 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_Day

[koenigdavidmj → svat]

You are of course correct, but the currency that is 1/100 of a pound is still the penny, plural "pence". In this case, 5 cents still doesn't work.

[svat → koenigdavidmj]

Yes good point. And in any case, for "five rupees, or about 13 cents" to be correct, we'd need a cent to be about 5/13 ≈ 0.38 rupees, and that fits neither USD (1 USD ≈ 65 INR) nor GBP (1 GBP ≈ 86 INR). So original point in this thread, that the article's conversion is mystifying/wrong, still holds.