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$18,250,000 USD 1848 1,360,000 km² 13.4 USD/km² Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Southern Arizona and New Mexico [13] United States Mexico: $10,000,000 USD 1853 76,800 km² 130 USD/km² Gadsden Purchase: Danish Gold Coast [12] United Kingdom Denmark: 10,000 GBP 1850 ~12,000 km² ~1.2 GBP/km² Saxe-Lauenburg [14] Prussia Austria
A currency pair is the quotation of the relative value of a currency unit against the unit of another currency in the foreign exchange market.The currency that is used as the reference is called the counter currency, quote currency, or currency [1] and the currency that is quoted in relation is called the base currency or transaction currency.
Decimalisation or decimalization (see spelling differences) is the conversion of a system of currency or of weights and measures to units related by powers of 10.. Most countries have decimalised their currencies, converting them from non-decimal sub-units to a decimal system, with one basic currency unit and sub-units that are valued relative to the basic unit by a power of 10, most commonly ...
Property taxes are also expressed in terms of mills per dollar assessed (a mill levy, known more widely in the US as a "mill rate"). For instance, with a millage rate of 2.8₥, a house with an assessment of $100,000 would be taxed (2.8 × 100,000) = 280,000₥, or $280.00.
[1] [2] [3] 1,000,000,000,000 , i.e. one million million, or 10 12 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the long scale . This number is the historical sense of the word and remains the established sense of the word in other European languages.
If the amount is written using words as well as numerals, only the prefix is used (e.g. USh 10 million). This pattern was modelled on sterling's pre-decimal notation, in which amounts were written in some combination of pounds (£), shillings (s), and pence (d, for denarius). In that notation, amounts under a pound were notated only in ...
A million millilitres or cubic centimetres (one cubic metre) of water has a mass of a million grams or one tonne. Weight: A million 80-milligram (1.2 gr) honey bees would weigh the same as an 80 kg (180 lb) person. Landscape: A pyramidal hill 600 feet (180 m) wide at the base and 100 feet (30 m) high would weigh about a million short tons.
1980: Withdrawal of the sixpence (6d) coin, which had continued in circulation at a value of 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 p. 1982: The word "new" was dropped from the coinage and a 20p coin was introduced. 1983: A (round, brass) £1 coin was introduced. 1983: The 1 ⁄ 2 p coin was last produced. 1984: The 1 ⁄ 2 p coin was withdrawn from circulation.