[HPforGrownups] Re: HP Currency Converter @ CNN (was) Money, Trips, Cars,...

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No: HPFGUIDX 59443

In a message dated 6/6/2003 12:42:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, Ray writes:

> Although I dispute your implication that the Galleon to Dollar rate can 
> only 
> be determined by converting Galleons to Pounds and then Pounds to Dollars, 
> we 
> do agree on two things:
> 
> 1.  One Galleon is roughly equal to £5 or $7.50
> 2.  The CNN converter program is so wildly inaccurate as to be useless.

I wonder if CNN would like to know how off they are. Most journalists take 
their jobs very seriously and go to great lengths to ensure that *all* 
information, no matter how trivial, is accurate (Rita Skeeter and a handful of Muggle 
reporters are exceptions, of course). If a galleon is really $7.50 US dollars, 
and CNN is publishing that it's about $3 less than that, maybe someone should 
tell them.

:)  Or maybe we should stay quiet lest we all look like raging-lunatic, Harry 
Potter fans.  :)

Brief Chronicles


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