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There was a further decline during the remainder of 2008, most dramatically on 29 December when its euro rate hit an all-time low at €1.0219, while its US dollar rate depreciated. [120] [121] Sterling appreciated in early 2009, reaching a peak against the euro of £1 to €1.17 in mid-July. In the following months sterling remained broadly ...
50 by 111 by 19 millimetres (1.97 in × 4.37 in × 0.75 in) (Scientific) 73 by 155 by 34 millimetres (2.9 in × 6.1 in × 1.3 in) (Scientific Programmable) The Sinclair Scientific was a 12-function, pocket-sized scientific calculator introduced in 1974, dramatically undercutting in price other calculators available at the time.
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.
Valued in USD, the currency went from US$1 = HK$5.71 to US$1 = HK$6.06; 1972: pegged to the US dollar, US$1 = HK$5.65; 1973: US$1 = HK$5.085; 1974 to 1983: The Hong Kong dollar was floated; October 17, 1983: Pegged at US$1 = HK$7.80 through the currency board system; May 18, 2005: A lower and upper guaranteed limit are in place at 7.75 to the ...
£1/1/– one guinea - historically an amount paid for settlement of legal disputes, but currently still the wager on the winner of a horse race. £1/10/– (one pound, ten shillings; one pound ten, "thirty bob") £1/19/ 11 + 3 ⁄ 4 (one pound, nineteen shillings and elevenpence three farthings: a psychological price, one farthing under £2)
The first American-made pocket-sized calculator, the Bowmar 901B (popularly termed The Bowmar Brain), measuring 5.2 by 3.0 by 1.5 inches (132 mm × 76 mm × 38 mm), came out in the Autumn of 1971, with four functions and an eight-digit red LED display, for US$240, while in August 1972 the four-function Sinclair Executive became the first ...
Based on an estimate by Economic Times in April 2011 and adjusted to inflation for August 2022, the cost of raising a child from birth to age of majority (21 Years) for a middle to upper-middle income family comes to about ₹ 1.17 crore (equivalent to ₹ 1.2 crore or US$140,000 in 2023) in total. [6] Cost break up is as follows:
[49] [64] Instead, the £20 note was the first Series D note to enter circulation in 1970, with William Shakespeare on the reverse. [ 65 ] Runaway inflation through the 1970s also considerably eroded the lifespan of the £1 note, and the Series D £1 note, featuring Sir Isaac Newton , was discontinued in 1984, having been replaced by a coin the ...