Currency converter

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Hi Barbie

Its me Armin hope you remember me. Please use this converter from Ebay, you
have to give in 9,95 (COMMA)

_http://pages.ebay.de/services/buyandsell/currencyconverter.html_
(eBay Deutschland: Währungs-Umrechner)

Its 7,27893 Dollar.

But be careful i have tried the US Version she gives me the result of 727
Dollar!!!! Use the link to Ebay.de above this one is working properly.

Best regards Armin

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Dear Armin,

Of course I remember you.

I don't understand what 7,27893 Dollar, is.

This book cannot cost over $7000.00 can it?

Where does the decimal point go?

Otherwise I think is too expensive for my pocketbook.

Warm Regards,

Barbie-Lew

3

Hello,

the little currency in Germany is separated by a comma instead of a point.

Best regards
Manfred

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4

Hi Armin,

When you tried the conversion you converted 9.95 Dollars into 7,27893 Euro,
instead of 9,95 Euro into Dollars.

Bobbi

5

Hi Cactus Flower,

In Europe, numbers use a comma (,) to separate Euros from hundredths of
Euros where in the US we use a period (dot) (.) to separate dollars from
hundredths of dollars. We use a comma in the US to separate thousands in
long numbers, where in Europe they use a period. Thus, one hundred ten
dollars and 52 cents is written as $110.52. In Europe they would prefer to
write $110,52. Therefore ?9,95 in Europe would be written as ?9.95 in the
US. When converting, one must first decide what format is being used by the
calculator and then write in that format. ?9,95 is equal to about $13.56 at
the present time. There could also be exchange fees, etc. These can be
quite steep so find the best way to send the money where you do not need to
pay a fortune in exchange fees.

Long numbers, as I said, are also separated differently in Europe and the
USA. To make matters worse, England has a different value for billions of
anything. Thus 1 billion in England is written 1,000,000,000,000 while it
is written in figures in the USA as 1,000,000,000 and the same figure in
Europe is written 1.000.000.000; Europe therefore uses a comma instead of a
decimal point, and a period as a thousandths separator.

All this is probably more than you wanted to know, but it sometimes helps to
have a little wider knowledge of things than just what is done in the USA.

Eugene M. Wiese
838 Linlawn Drive
Wabash, IN 46992-3903
emwiese1 at comcast.net