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From: dcp@world.std.com (David C. Petty)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth Interest Group raises dues
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.151745.21620@world.std.com>
Date: 11 Mar 91 15:17:45 GMT
References: <2456.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>
Reply-To: dcp@world (David C. Petty)
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
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In article <2456.UUL1.3#5129@willett.pgh.pa.us>,
Alan Furman writes:

``The last constraint on money creation--the last
``remaining difference between the Federal Reserve Note and the Deutsche
``Reichsmark of 1922, was removed.

My father came home from WWII with a RR500,000,000 (yup, 5 * 10**8
Deutsche Reichsmarks) and they were quite common, i.e. used to buy
everyday household items.  When do you think we will be listing the
FIG dues in scientific notation?  
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