Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:03:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/units units.lib Message-ID: <200207102103.g6AL3s8Y046834@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <xzplm8jg1wc.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <200207100913.g6A9DgKX009215@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzpr8ibhmlb.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020710131548.D36004@uriah.heep.sax.de> <xzplm8jg1wc.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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<<On 10 Jul 2002 15:15:15 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> said: > all fine and dandy, except today's rate is 1.0115, and last Friday it > was 1.03, and tomorrow's rate will be something else again, and next > month it might be 0.95 or it might be 1.15, who knows? And you still > insist this is meaningful? Most exchange rates do not change very rapidly over time. USD 1.50 has been approximately equal to GBP 1 for a very long time. Similarly, before Eurofication, there were almost a dozen European currencies all approximately equal to each other and about USD 0.18. (It would be nice, if we're going to have currencies in units.lib, if it would accept standard ISO 4617 symbols.) If the tables were updated yearly, that's probably good enough for most uses. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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