What's the UK price of a PC that sells for $1000 over the other side of the Atlantic? £1,000. Or of a $100 disk? Why, £100 of course. This is perhaps the only conversion rate that has remained unchanged over the past decade, but it ignores, of course, the relative values of the two currencies.
Forget about logging onto the Yahoo! instant currency converter - excellent facility though it is - when you want to find out how many Tonga pa'angas you can get for your Kazakhstan tenge (none, ap...
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