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  2. Forward exchange rate - Wikipedia

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    To record the receipt of 5 million euros at the forward rate of $1.26 = $1 U.S. dollar. In this transaction, there is no difference that arises as the sale of goods in a foreign currency and forward contract are effectively treated as one transaction. Here the rate of $1.26 = $1 U.S dollar is used throughout the recording of both transactions.

  3. Mill (currency) - Wikipedia

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    With respect to property taxes, a "mil" is also slang for one million units of currency, especially as a rate expressed per mille "‰", as one million units of currency per milliard on the long scale of numeration, that is, 1,000,000 per 1,000,000,000 currency units of assessed valuation on all private property throughout the "mill yard" or ...

  4. Billion - Wikipedia

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    [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.

  5. Euro - Wikipedia

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    The euro was introduced to world financial markets as an accounting currency on 1 January 1999, replacing the former European Currency Unit (ECU) at a ratio of 1:1 (US$1.1743 at the time). Physical euro coins and banknotes entered into circulation on 1 January 2002, making it the day-to-day operating currency of its original members, and by ...

  6. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    The root mil in million does not refer to the numeral, 1. The word, million, derives from the Old French, milion, from the earlier Old Italian, milione, an intensification of the Latin word, mille, a thousand. That is, a million is a big thousand, much as a great gross is a dozen gross or 12 × 144 = 1728. [5]

  7. EuroMillions - Wikipedia

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    (X) draw 1 to 5: 50% + 10% & draw 6 (or higher): 42% + 18% (c) expected winnings are based on the currency exchange rate as at 7 December 2019, 1 euro = 0.8419 pound, rounded to 1 pound; The odds of winning any prize at all are 1 in 13; The odds of getting none of the 50 main balls but getting both lucky stars is approximately 1 in 115.

  8. Euro banknotes - Wikipedia

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    According to an investigation of the University of Lausanne, the ratio of counterfeited banknotes was about 10 in one million real banknotes for the Swiss franc, of 100 in one million for United States dollar and of 300 in one million for pound sterling. [109] In 2011, 606,000 euro counterfeits were removed from circulation (41 per million).

  9. International status and usage of the euro - Wikipedia

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    The euro is a major global reserve currency, the second most widely held international reserve currency after the U.S. dollar. [59] Inheriting this status from the German mark , its share of international reserves has risen from 23.65% in 2002 to a peak of 27.66% in 2009 before declining due to the European debt crisis , with Russia and Eastern ...