Meckimac.com Photography » currency http://meckimac.com All about my Photography and more Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:14:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Apple’s way of converting currencies http://meckimac.com/2009/03/13/apples-way-of-converting-currencies/ http://meckimac.com/2009/03/13/apples-way-of-converting-currencies/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:47:05 +0000 ingo http://meckimac.com/wp/?p=124 I had to do some currency conversions today and I’m usually relying on Apple’s Dashboard Widget “Unit Converter”.
I had to convert British Pounds into US Dollars and got some strange numbers that didn’t sound right. I then made following conversion from US Dollars into US Dollars and got some very interesting results.

Currency conversion - the Apple way

Now, Apple claims to get the data from Yahoo Finance although their website shows the real numbers:

Yahoo Currency conversion

I wonder if I’m the only one having that problem. I’m running the latest version of OS X Leopard and have all recent updates installed.

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