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- From: gardner_c@apollo.hp.com (Cal Gardner)
- Subject: Re: Value of the US Dollar
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:42:34 GMT
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- In article <C0po8L.JFr@comp.vuw.ac.nz> harper@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (John Harper) writes:
- >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?
- >>
- >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) ?]
- >
- >John Harper Mathematics Dept. Victoria University Wellington New Zealand
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- Well before the Brits went off the gold standard in (I think) 1931
- and FDR devalued the US Dollar, the fixed exchange rate was
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- 1 pound Sterling = $4.85
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- If you calculate golcd at US$20.00 and check the gold weight of a
- sovereign you should get the above exchange rate unless I should
- have used a value of $20.87 to cover Uncle Sam's vigorish.
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- Cal gardner_c@apollo.hp.com
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