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- Subject: Re: Value of the US Dollar
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- From: harper@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (John Harper)
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:38:44 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan11.180318.6541@cs.unca.edu> snodgras@cs.unca.edu (Ryan Snodgrass) writes:
- >How do I compute the value of the US dollar?
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- See C V Durell & A Robson "Advanced Trigonometry" (Bell, London, 1930)
- Exercise XV no 6 is "Is it true to say that i^i pounds is 1 dollar ?"
- [Sometime in 1929 or 1930 was the exchange rate near exp(-pi/2) ?]
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- John Harper Mathematics Dept. Victoria University Wellington New Zealand
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