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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
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Subject: Re: Fast conversions, another urban myth?
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Date: 15 Oct 89 22:09:02 GMT
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Peter da Silva (peter@ficc.uu.net) writes:
>Not  only is it contrived, but it's unlikely to come up in financial
>calculations, since one does not tend to multiply dollars by dollars.

No, but one tends to multiply whatever currency with interest rates.
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Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
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