[silence] Cage in Italy

[Tom Duff]

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Luigi Pizzaleo wrote:

> John Cage was in italian quiz "Lascia o raddoppia" in 1958. He wan 5 millions 
> italian lire, something as today's 500,000 dollars.

The lire/dollars exchange rate was pegged at $1=625 lire under the Bretton 
Woods agreement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_System) from 
1949 until 1971.  So 5M lire was worth $8000, which inflation since then 
has converted (http://www.westegg.com/inflation/) to something in the 
$55,000 range, not $500,000.

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Tom Duff.  OK I am going to hell.