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"John Stone" wrote in message
om... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3994789.stm From this article: "Forged banknotes worth at least 9m euros ($11.6m) were seized. " This is from the BBC web site, so why did the article recalcuate the amount in dollars, rather than pounds? -- Steve |
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Steve MacGregor wrote:
"John Stone" wrote in message om... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3994789.stm From this article: "Forged banknotes worth at least 9m euros ($11.6m) were seized. " This is from the BBC web site, so why did the article recalcuate the amount in dollars, rather than pounds? A good point indeed! Well spotted. It probably sounds more sensational converting €9m to $11.6m (escalating the figures involved if not the value) than saying £6.3m. ....but that is just the cynic in me. :-) Ian |
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This is from the BBC web site, so why did the article recalcuate the amount in dollars, rather than pounds? A good point indeed! Well spotted. I've wondered the The Who (a British group) titled a song "I can see for miles" instead of "I can see for kilometers" (smile face here). |
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UK road signs are still in miles, as are vehicle speedos, with km in
smaller numbers on the dial. The performance of a vehicle is still given as "0 to 60 mph" or "0 to 62 mph", the "62" being some kind of km per hour equivalent. Billy JSTONE9352 wrote: This is from the BBC web site, so why did the article recalcuate the amount in dollars, rather than pounds? A good point indeed! Well spotted. I've wondered the The Who (a British group) titled a song "I can see for miles" instead of "I can see for kilometers" (smile face here). |
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JSTONE9352 wrote:
This is from the BBC web site, so why did the article recalcuate the amount in dollars, rather than pounds? A good point indeed! Well spotted. I've wondered the The Who (a British group) titled a song "I can see for miles" instead of "I can see for kilometers" (smile face here). Keith Moon was always a little bit more `off planet' than the rest of the band although Pete Townsend came a pretty close second. Kind of like two space cadets. I'm sure with the help of the substances they were so fond of they could (on occasion) could see for parsecs and parsecs. The song was written prior to decimalisation in the UK, before joining the then EEC and at a time when you could still legally buy things in pounds and ounces, pints and gallons, inches feet and yards. Strange as it may seem we still measure distance in the UK by the mile and we still drink beer by the pint (although some would prefer the gallon measure for beer). I wish we still had our pre decimal currency though. Like the music of the same era, it was far more interesting than the crap we have now. ;-) Ian |
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possibly because dollars are still the reserve currency of the world (for
now) and many countries can convert the amount easily.Not to mention the fact that $11 mil is a lot of cabbage. -- Today 50 families will find out their child has autism. 1 in 150 children have an autism spectrum disorder. "Steve MacGregor" wrote in message news:t26kd.20143$GN4.8970@okepread02... "John Stone" wrote in message om... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3994789.stm From this article: "Forged banknotes worth at least 9m euros ($11.6m) were seized. " This is from the BBC web site, so why did the article recalcuate the amount in dollars, rather than pounds? -- Steve |
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note.boy wrote:
UK road signs are still in miles, as are vehicle speedos, with km in smaller numbers on the dial. The performance of a vehicle is still given as "0 to 60 mph" or "0 to 62 mph", the "62" being some kind of km per hour equivalent. Billy According to "Convert" 62 MPH = 99.77933 KPH -- George D Phoenix, AZ AAA, AARP, ANA, NRA, RCC ?+1, PIA, PIAAZ, GATF 85006-3032-18-4 Please use this address to mail me. Or remove the arizona in the link. Remember there is no Arizona. ALL emails incoming and outgoing are run thru Norton and AVG anti virus. |
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Ian wrote:
It probably sounds more sensational converting ¤9m to $11.6m (escalating the figures involved if not the value) than saying £6.3m. ...but that is just the cynic in me. :-) Either that g or it's because major news sources (press agencies, broadcasting networks) sell their articles worldwide. And since the US dollar is a handy "reference" currency, most people can easily convert the amount ... Christian |
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George D wrote:
note.boy wrote: UK road signs are still in miles, as are vehicle speedos, with km in smaller numbers on the dial. The performance of a vehicle is still given as "0 to 60 mph" or "0 to 62 mph", the "62" being some kind of km per hour equivalent. Billy Nearby, Ireland is getting ready to convert its signage from miles to km as I type this, leaving the UK, the USA and a few widely scattered tiny dot-on-the-map island nations remaining out of the 'decimal measurements' world (the UK did recently convert weights and measures for 'trade' to SI, though). According to "Convert" 62 MPH = 99.77933 KPH 100 km/h. A *LOT* of those seemingly 'over-precise' Olde Englische measurement figures that you see in, for example, news reports are actually converted from evenly rounded metric amounts. For example, those recent private space flights actually had to reach an even 100 km in altitude to be recognized, that figure was converted by the news agencies to "62.14 miles" for USA consumption. Even the learned-from-childhood 'normal' human body temp (98.6F) is actually converted from an even 37C. -- ___________________________________________ ____ _______________ Regards, | |\ ____ | | | | |\ Michael G. Koerner May they | | | | | | rise again! Appleton, Wisconsin USA | | | | | | ___________________________________________ | | | | | | _______________ |
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