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How Much Does it Buy?

February 6, 2008 | RSS | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS

Yesterday as I was staring at the $44.6 billion Microsoft has offered for Yahoo! I got to thinking, "what else could you buy for that?" Instead of doing a whole bunch of math on the spot, I decided to tell Joe (of Holy Crap! Facts) and we built a site to answer the question. How Much Does it Buy? is a currency converter for the rest of us, telling you how much that giant sum will buy you in A380s (146 instead of Yahoo!), boob jobs (6,371,428 of the silicone variety), cows (47,130,930 1,000 pounders), elephants (2,260,975 without food), gold, iPhones, kidneys on the black market, pork bellies, stars (from the Internation Star Registry), ThighMasters and unleaded gas.

It was really just for fun, but I thought it was worth sharing. I actually am pulling commodity prices dynamically as well, which was kind of a fun problem to figure out.

Tags: fun, microsoft, projects, yahoo

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1naveen

Really funny. Make it recognize words like "billion" and "million" and have it automatically figure out what you mean - that would be a cool. So all I'd have to do is enter $44.6 billion and then have it figure out that translates to 44,600,000,000. Typing in zeros early in the morning is hard.

February 6, 2008

2grant

funny! put a form in there where people can add an "ITEM" and "$VALUE" to keep adding to the list.
...or not ;)
-see you on friday

February 6, 2008

3sarah

whoa! kidneys are expensive!!!!

February 12, 2008