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Is there any way or need to internationalise the HCL's "Price paid" field? How about free text?
The question arises because I bought hardware in India and naturally paid in INR. Knowing that would not be meaningful to many LQ users, I also gave an approximate conversion into USD which most users will be able to convert. It would have been misleading to give the price in USD because hardware is generally more expensive in India than in USA because of taxes and discounting.
Definitely sounds like a good idea to use international currencies for prices in the HCL, because as you said, currencies don't always exchange right. Trying to convert a pound, euro, yen, rupee, or won to a dollar is a real pain, because there are sometimes irrational numbers involved.
I usually use www.xe.com to get an idea of the amounts. It produces a result to 4 decimal places, but the rounding up/down is normally trivial. It should also be noted that if the hardware is not listed immediately, depreciation will make the value change. If you are looking to buy any of the listed hardware, shop around as prices will vary. The amount on the HCL is merely there to give an indication of what members have spent, rather than telling you what you should expect to spend.
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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. It's possible we'll simply remove the number if it's not proving useful. Thanks for the feedback.
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. It's possible we'll simply remove the number if it's not proving useful. Thanks for the feedback.
--jeremy
Understood. Would it be practicable to make it a free text field so the likes of "INR 2500 (USD ~40)" would be accepted?
Basically the same as the difference between a meter and a foot. Trying to convert them is insane, because the decimal that results from the conversion is neither terminating nor repeating, like pi for instance.
Basically the same as the difference between a meter and a foot. Trying to convert them is insane, because the decimal that results from the conversion is neither terminating nor repeating, like pi for instance.
If you end up with a such a number, then the normal procedure is to round it after a predetermined number of decimal places. Hardly "insane."
However, multiplying or dividing a number by 3.2808 (which, according to the Wikipedia article on "meter", is the conversion factor between meters and feet) does not give you an irrational number. While it's occurred to me that this value is rounded, I could not find any references saying that the more precise value is irrational.
Hopefully, none of the numbers found on the HCL price list will be irrational numbers. Any of the currency conversions can be done as long as you round the decimals to 2 places, which is trivial and can be done by anyone with more than one maths lesson in decimals.
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