How much of an Alex is it?
Those of you who listen to MacBreak Weekly are familiar with the imaginary unit of currency, the Alex.
For those of you who don’t listen to MBW: Alex Lindsay, one of the co-hosts, typically goes in for very expensive software—upward of a kilobuck. So his co-hosts defined one Alex as equal to $700 USD (roughly the price of Photoshop at the time). With this, the hosts express the prices of the software that they spotlight each week in fractions of an Alex: a $10 program, for example, would be stated as costing “¹⁄₇₀th of an Alex”. Something that is free costs “zero Alexes”.
To that end, here’s a table of prices expressed in both USD and Alexes. If you ever have an urge to tell a friend how much some piece of software costs, simply look up the price on this table and give it to your friend as a fraction of one Alex. Alternatively, use this converter service, which I created with ThisService.
If you want a more complete table, here’s one from $1 to $14,000.
| USD | Alex |
|---|---|
| 1.00 | ¹⁄₇₀₀ |
| 2.00 | ¹⁄₃₅₀ |
| 3.00 | ³⁄₇₀₀ |
| 4.00 | ¹⁄₁₇₅ |
| 5.00 | ¹⁄₁₄₀ |
| 6.00 | ³⁄₃₅₀ |
| 7.00 | ¹⁄₁₀₀ |
| 8.00 | ²⁄₁₇₅ |
| 9.00 | ⁹⁄₇₀₀ |
| 10.00 | ¹⁄₇₀ |
| 15.00 | ³⁄₁₄₀ |
| 20.00 | ¹⁄₃₅ |
| 25.00 | ¹⁄₂₈ |
| 30.00 | ³⁄₇₀ |
| 35.00 | ¹⁄₂₀ |
| 40.00 | ²⁄₃₅ |
| 45.00 | ⁹⁄₁₄₀ |
| 50.00 | ¹⁄₁₄ |
| 55.00 | ¹¹⁄₁₄₀ |
| 60.00 | ³⁄₃₅ |
| 65.00 | ¹³⁄₁₄₀ |
| 70.00 | ¹⁄₁₀ |
| 75.00 | ³⁄₂₈ |
| 80.00 | ⁴⁄₃₅ |
| 85.00 | ¹⁷⁄₁₄₀ |
| 90.00 | ⁹⁄₇₀ |
| 95.00 | ¹⁹⁄₁₄₀ |
| 100.00 | ¹⁄₇ |
| 150.00 | ³⁄₁₄ |
| 200.00 | ²⁄₇ |
| 250.00 | ⁵⁄₁₄ |
| 300.00 | ³⁄₇ |
| 350.00 | ¹⁄₂ |
| 400.00 | ⁴⁄₇ |
| 450.00 | ⁹⁄₁₄ |
| 500.00 | ⁵⁄₇ |
| 550.00 | ¹¹⁄₁₄ |
| 600.00 | ⁶⁄₇ |
| 650.00 | ¹³⁄₁₄ |
| 700.00 | ¹⁄₁ |
| 750.00 | ¹⁵⁄₁₄ |
| 800.00 | ⁸⁄₇ |
| 850.00 | ¹⁷⁄₁₄ |
| 900.00 | ⁹⁄₇ |
| 950.00 | ¹⁹⁄₁₄ |
| 1000.00 | ¹⁰⁄₇ |
November 26th, 2007 at 06:24:53
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