Oops: UK quattro Owners Club - Overseas

[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

In message <1996Aug16.141655.1251.374798@spoke.ball.com> dlawson@ball.com (Dave Lawson) writes:

> 
> As a very observant reader of quattro mail pointed out,
> 
> >> The detailed financial breakdown is
> >>      current  exchange rate 1.549GBP/US$, wednesdays rate in fridays 
> paper
> 
> >either you have the ratio of GBP to US$ backwords or you multiplied
> >instead of dividing,
> 
> Wouldn't you know it, I screwed up. The units on the monetary conversion
> should read US$/GBP, the number stays the same, so the end result is still
> the amount previously quoted.

You are in good company.  None other than that paragon of perfect information 
dissemination, the British Broadcasting Corporation, CEEFAX, page 251:

  P251  CEEFAX 251  Fri 16 Aug  23:00/09
                                        
  $   ThuCls  FriCls GBP  ThuCls  FriCls

 GBP  1.5501  1.5472   $  1.5501  1.5472
  DM  1.4849  1.4941  DM  2.3017  2.3115
   Y  107.96  108.01   Y  167.35  167.08
 SFr  1.2060  1.2103 SFr  1.8694  1.8725
 FFr  5.0799  5.1042 FFr  7.8744  7.8970
 BFr   30.62   30.81 BFr   47.46   47.67
 DFl  1.6677  1.6752 DFl  2.5851  2.5918
 DKr  5.7475  5.7715 DKr  8.9092  8.9291
 SKr  6.6284  6.6533 SKr 10.2747 10.2937
 NKr  6.4200  6.4430 NKr  9.9516  9.9683
   L 1515.50 1517.50   L 2349.18 2347.80
 Pta  125.83  126.05 Pta  195.05  195.01
  C$  1.3776  1.3738  C$  2.1354  2.1258
 Ecu  1.2669  1.2631 Ecu  1.2235  1.2249
                                        
   Key: Mid-prices for deals in excess  
   of GBP500,000. GBP Quoted in US dollars. 

--
 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club