WI Decimalisation necessary because of inflation?

Was decimalisation in Britain an anticipation of 70's inflation, and not just a social project?

I always thought that the real reason Britain decimalised was out of fears of coming inflation, and not "ease of computation" or any other reason. I would think that everything below sixpence would be worthless by the early 80's, with the shilling almost becoming the smallest unit. It might be difficult to have a system where everything had to be paid in shillings, florins, half crowns, ten bob note, and 1 pound. twentieths, tenths, eights, halfs, and the base unit. I guess they'd have to reintroduce the crown (5/-) to fill the gap. But such a system would be quite inaccurate for sales.

I didn't live through decimalisation in Britain or 70's inflation. Just wondering, what was the buying power of 5p by the early 80's? Was is similar to the shilling before 1971, or much less? I think that would illustrate the relative wisdom of decimalising in 1971 in order to forestall projected inflation.
 
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I lived through it. Given the planning required, inflation had nothing to do with it. I can tell you the prices shot up as it was introduced with an awful lot of people 'rounding up'
 
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