Archive for the ‘Monetary Value’ Category
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
With gas prices going through the roof, many people have contemplated buying a new car, particularly a gas/electric hybrid, to drastically improve their gas mileage and lower their gas bill. But are the savings people are getting really all they're cracked up to be?
Don't get me wrong. I'm ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Gas stations in the USA have been selling gas at prices ending in 9/10ths of a cent for decades. Depending on who you ask, the practice dates back to the Great Depression or farther, and there are varying reasons given for it. The most often agreed-upon reason for ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
We've all heard someone say some other person was worth his/her weight in gold. If you haven't, you've probably been living in a cave. But if you were worth your weight in gold, how much would you be worth? Well, you can try our new handy dandy calculator below ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
How is Bush's latest war funding request roughly equal to the amount of toilet paper needed to cover Texas and California? How much would it cost to cover Iraq in toilet paper? Read on and find out.
In my previous post on how much toilet paper it would take to ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
I was recently reading an article in which someone was quoted as saying a problem they faced was costing "a ton of money." Of course, his ton was figurative, merely meaning "a lot," but it got me thinking... just how much is a ton of money worth?
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The first thing ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
If you suffer from insomnia that's not bad enough for a prescription, but you do take non-prescription pills you can buy at the pharmacy, you may find today's Rough Equivalents very interesting. You see, all of these are roughly equivalent:
Tylenol Simply Sleep - 100 tablets ($11.79* - 23.6 cents ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Every once in a while, when they do a news story about aircraft carriers, the "landing on a moving postage stamp" metaphor is used to describe trying to set a fighter jet down on the flight deck safely. One of the more entertaining Rough Equivalents for a carrier landing ...
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