Buying books from UK Amazon - Correction

Simon simon.branford at hertford.ox.ac.uk
Mon Jan 29 10:27:46 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 11121

Becky wrote: "Just so happens I ordered UK versions this afternoon. If you
want to figure out conversion so you know how much you're spending $1 =
1.4605
pounds right now."

The exchange rate is 1 UK Pound = 1.46 US Dollars at the moment.

So if ordering from the UK add half again onto the quoted price (so if price
is ?6 then you get 6+3 = 9 Dollars, true conversion gives you 8.76) and you
obtain (roughly) the price in US Dollars (it will give a slightly higher
price in dollars than the true figure, but is a lot easier to do in your
head).

Simon (putting his mathematics to good use, while avoiding doing any of his
work)





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