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Offline BlueJ1

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« on: August 01, 2004, 09:02:46 PM »
Ive always wondered how money systems work in European nations. I live in the U.S. and go to public Highschool in the suburbs. We are not taught about European money at all. Not even in forgein lang. classes. I was wondering how are money systems set up there, such as the U.S. has pennies, nickles, dimes and so on. I also wonder, nt sure how to phrase this for a lack of vocabulary caused by no sleep for 3 days, how the money equals to 1.0, such as a penny is 0.01 and a quarter is 0.25.

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Offline TweetyBird

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« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2004, 09:39:50 PM »
Search http://www.google.com for +yen +"exchange rate"

A bunch of currency exchange calculator links will come up.
You can see what each unit value is in US dollars and then search the name of the units (in google) to find which country uses them.

At least you're curious.

Keep up the good work suburban public schools:mad:
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Offline ra

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« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2004, 09:47:02 PM »
US money is decimalized, as are most countries'.
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Offline DA98

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« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2004, 09:48:52 PM »
In the Euro zone the basic unit is the Euro, wich can be divided in cents. We have coins wirh a value of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 cents, 1 and 2 euros, and notes of 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 euros.
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« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2004, 10:12:32 PM »
Tweety, I dun went too a publik skool end i trrned out jest fyne!
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Offline Gunslinger

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« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2004, 10:43:45 PM »
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In the Euro zone the basic unit is the Euro, wich can be divided in cents. We have coins wirh a value of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 cents, 1 and 2 euros, and notes of 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 euros.


DA98,

What are they called though....IE nickle, quater, dime, pence, bit????
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« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2004, 11:05:20 PM »
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Offline TweetyBird

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« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2004, 12:14:25 AM »
>>Tweety, I dun went too a publik skool end i trrned out jest fyne!

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Believe it or not, the valedictorian of a certain school here got a blank dimploma as she had to attend summer school to grad-e - ate :D
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« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2004, 02:30:20 AM »
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DA98,

What are they called though....IE nickle, quater, dime, pence, bit????

I don't know of any nickname(correct translation?) for the euro yet,except we say roro instead of € from time to time.
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Offline GRUNHERZ

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« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2004, 02:34:34 AM »
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I don't know of any nickname(correct translation?) for the euro yet,except we say roro instead of € from time to time.


Have the nazis at your language ministry decreed "Euro" to be too unfrench as well?  BTW thanks for that fast courriel response the other day...

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« Reply #10 on: August 02, 2004, 02:40:45 AM »
The best side of Euro is we can fool the American tourist by giving them back some monopoly notes instead of proper money :p

:p

More seriously ,I'm missing the historical personnage we had on French money ... imagine a green with Ben Afflek instead of Washington :D
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Offline GRUNHERZ

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« Reply #11 on: August 02, 2004, 02:45:59 AM »
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The best side of Euro is we can fool the American tourist by giving them back some monopoly notes instead of proper money :p

:p

More seriously ,I'm missing the historical personnage we had on French money ... imagine a green with Ben Afflek instead of Washington :D


French historical personages? I guess they gotta be waaaaaay historical. ;)

BTW Which note was Robespierre on?  :p
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« Reply #12 on: August 02, 2004, 02:56:03 AM »
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French historical personages? I guess they gotta be waaaaaay historical. ;)

BTW Which note was Robespierre on?  :p


How can it be possible to the head of a headless guy on a banknote ?

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« Reply #13 on: August 02, 2004, 02:58:29 AM »
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How can it be possible to the head of a headless guy on a banknote ?

:D


Wouldnt the incident in question simplyfy the currency engravers work at obtaining a fine representation of his likeness?
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« Reply #14 on: August 02, 2004, 03:14:31 AM »
I don't think it would have been less complex ...
see yourself http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jeanpierre.gadbois/anatomie/le_cou.gif

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