HCL "Price paid" and internationalisation

archtoad6 · 02-20-2011, 07:21 AM

Beat me to it, XavierP

-- I had the URL loaded in the clipboard & the title in the mouse buffer, I'll just quote the 1st paragraph:

Irrational number
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In mathematics, an irrational number is any real number which cannot be expressed as a fraction a/b, where a and b are integers, with b non-zero, and is therefore not a rational number. Informally, this means that an irrational number cannot be represented as a simple fraction. Irrational numbers are precisely those real numbers that cannot be represented as terminating or repeating decimals. As a consequence of Cantor's proof that the real numbers are uncountable (and the rationals countable) it follows that almost all real numbers are irrational.[1] Perhaps the best-known irrational numbers are π, e and √2.[2][3][4] When the ratio of lengths of two line segments is irrational, the line segments are also described as being incommensurable, meaning they share no measure in common. A measure of a line segment I in this sense is a line segment J that "measures" I in the sense that some whole number of copies of J laid end-to-end occupy the same length as I.

Since "exchange rate" implies an exchange of 2 set amounts, the "rate", i.e. the ratio, can scarcely be anything but a simple fraction, & therefore a rational number.

(BTW, all pennies & other decimal fractions can be eliminated by multiplying both amounts by a suitable power of 10.)

XavierP · 02-20-2011, 01:52 PM

Between us we have educated the masses. Now we can rest.

cascade9 · 03-06-2011, 01:05 PM

@ archtoad6- from somebody who has never visited the US, I find the wholes pennies, dimes and nickels thing just doesnt stick in my head. Stange, considering I can remember stupid things like the default voltage on CPUs that were made last century. I guess economics is my weak point, and stupid trivia on specs easy (I also remember stupid things like the displacement, bore and stroke of chevy smallblock V8s, and I've only ever owned one for 2 hours)

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Originally Posted by jeremy

Listing the price paid per country in localized currency really isn't feasible unfortunately. Even within a single country prices will vary quite significantly, so the price paid really should just be seen as a rough estimate.

There is that. Its also made a lot more complicated by the changing values of currency.

For example, I was just about to put up a few more bits of hardware (I got sidetracked with helping somebody at a different forum) and they arent exactly new, so should I list the price converted to US dollars using the current conversion rate, or using the best guess I can make at the conversion rate on the date I bought them?

BTW,I dont know if this is frowned on here, but I wouldnt mind a bit more feedback on the whole 'reviewing hardware you have posted' question I asked here-

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...he-hcl-866635/