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Calculators, Currency, & Exchange Rates
 

When in Pius Library, use microfilm issues of the Wall Street Journal (Eastern Ed.) [HG1 .W357] in Serials on Level 2 to find exchange rates.  The current issue (Midwestern Edition) is in the Browsing Area with approximately the last two months in paper available in Serials.

CalculateMe: Calculate and Conversion Utility
     http://www.calculateme.com/
Includes temperature, exchange rates, and metric system conversion utilities in addition to calculations for areas for circles, squares, and rectangles.
     
Calculators     
      http://libraryspot.com/calculators.htm
Links to several specific calculators collected by LibrarySpot.
 
Exchange Rates
     http://www.x-rates.com/
Provides a chart or graph for changes in values of currency by country based upon the U.S. dollar from 7 to 120 days.  Includes a currency Calculator to convert currency from one to another.
 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York           http://www.ny.frb.org/markets/foreignex.html 
     
FXConverter - Currency Converter for 164 Currencies
     http://www.oanda.com/converter/classic
Calculates the official currency exchange rate, also known as the interbank rate, as well as a credit card rate (interbank + 2%) and a cash rate (interbank +4%).  Rates are the daily OANDA Rates®, taken from their extensive database that gathers information from many sources.
 
Inflation Calculator
     http://www.westegg.com/inflation/
This calculator will adjust "a given amount of money for inflation, according to the Consumer Price Index, from 1800-1998."
 
International Monetary Fund
     http://www.imf.org/external/fin.htm 
Posts the SDR (Special Drawing Right) exchange rates Monday through Friday and SDR Interest Rate each Monday.
     
Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center           http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html
Hundreds of links to calculators from finding the amount of grass seed needed to seed a lawn, to calculating your mortage payment, to mathematical, statistical, engineering and other scientific calculators.
 
PaycheckCity.com: An Online Collection of Paycheck Tools
     http://www.paycheckcity.com/
Paycheck City provides this group of tools that will calculate such things as your gross pay from take-home pay, take-home pay from hourly rate, withholding on special wage payments such as bonuses, and take-home pay if you receive tips.
 
Sample Size Calculator
     http://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm
Made available by Creative Research Systems as a public service.  Use this calculator "to determine how many people you need to interview in order to get results that reflect the target population as precisely as needed. You can also find the level of precision you have in an existing sample."  (text from site 4/5/00)
 
Social Security Online: Benefit Calculators
     http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/anypia/index.html
Estimate your Social Security Benefit by using any of three calculators.  Two can be used online, the third must be downloaded to your computer.
 
The Universal Currency Converter
     http://www.xe.com/ucc/ 
Converts to and from approximately 180 currencies.  Rates are for large value transactions and not for retail buy/sell rates.  They are obtained from a large variety of foreign exchange markets around the world.
 
U.S. Bureau of Engraving & Printing
     http://www.moneyfactory.com/
Contains information about and pictures of United States currency in addition to sections about the New Currency with an Interactive $5, $10, $20, and $50 Bill Flash tutorial, and the History of Our Currency.
 
What is a dollar worth?     
     http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/research/data/us/calc/
Calculates the worth of a dollar from 1913 to present for user chosen years and dollar amounts.
 

Last updated November 30, 2007.


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