Re: help with formfactor's currency conversion

john blue (jlblue@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu)
Wed, 22 Feb 95 12:15 PST

Hi,
What you put in the Set Rates box is how many Dollars equal a Lyra.
In this case it is (1/1607.5)=0.000622084.

Look at the rates that were in place for Francs and Marks. The rates were
the number of dollars that equal a Franc or a Mark.

John Blue
>
> hello.
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> am having trouble getting the correct response when I try converting US amounts
> to Italian Lyra amounts.
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> I go to Set Rates, place a 1 in the box for the US dollar and I then go to the
> Lyra box ( I deleted the french franc) and place a value of 1607.50 there.
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> however, when I tell it OK to set it, I try entering $1 in the US box, the
> italian box replies with the following value!
>
> 00062208!
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> I would think it would come back with a value of 1607.50
>
> anyone see what I am doing wrong?
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> tia
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> dom
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