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The current real was introduced in 1994 at 1 real = 2,750 cruzeiros reais. The modern real (Portuguese plural reais or English plural reals) was introduced on 1 July 1994, during the presidency of Itamar Franco, when Rubens Ricupero was the Minister of Finance as part of a broader plan to stabilize the Brazilian economy, known as the Plano Real.
The term originates from libra, the largest unit of the Carolingian monetary system used in Western Europe and elsewhere from the 8th to the 20th century. [2] The Carolingian system is the origin of the French livre tournois (predecessor of the franc ), the Italian lira, and the pound unit of sterling and related currencies.
The livre was established by Charlemagne as a unit of account equal to one pound of silver. [citation needed] It was subdivided into 20 sous (also sols), each of 12 deniers.[citation needed] The word livre came from the Latin word libra, a Roman unit of weight and still the name of a pound in modern French, and the denier comes from the Roman denarius.
In some contexts, the term "pound" is used almost exclusively to refer to the unit of force and not the unit of mass. In those applications, the preferred unit of mass is the slug, i.e. lbf⋅s 2 /ft. In other contexts, the unit "pound" refers to a unit of mass. The international standard symbol for the pound as a unit of mass is lb. [8]
LibreOffice (/ ˈ l iː b r ə /) [11] is a free and open-source office productivity software suite, a project of The Document Foundation (TDF). It was forked in 2010 from OpenOffice.org, an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice.
Diem (formerly known as Libra) was a permissioned blockchain-based stablecoin payment system proposed by the American social media company Facebook.The plan also included a private currency implemented as a cryptocurrency.
The Syrian pound or lira (Arabic: الليرة السورية, romanized: al-līra as-sūriyya; abbreviation: LS [2] or SP [3] in Latin, ل.س in Arabic, historically also £S, [4] and £Syr; [5] ISO code: SYP) is the currency of Syria.
ISO 4217; Code: UAH (numeric: 980) Subunit: 0.01: Unit; Plural: hryvnias (see also: declension of гривня in Ukrainian) Symbol ₴ or грн Denominations; Subunit 1 ⁄ 100 kopiyka (копійка)