DipDaq

Powered by compar.ing.

What can I buy with…

Near this price

You can buy one of the following:

Enough gold leaf to cover an American football field
Cover an American football field with a single layer of gold leaf for US$2,879 thousand (COL$5,477 million) from amazon

Thousands of

You can buy one of the following:

Wage payments for one week
Median UK wage for £479 (COL$1,398 thousand) from source
Oxford English Dictionaries
20 volume dictionary for £750 (COL$2,189 thousand) from source

Shopping list

You can buy all of the following:

1 Year of Wikipedia
Yearly expenditure of Wikimedia Foundation, 2007/8 for US$3,541 thousand (COL$6,736 million) from wikipedia
1 Olympic swimming pool filled with untaxed petrol
Olympic swimming pool filled with untaxed petrol for £1,173 thousand (COL$3,422 million) from hardcoded
1 Geologist
Annual salary of a geologist for US$42,630 (COL$81,110 thousand) from source
×200

200 Random number tables
"A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" by Michael D. Rich for £62 (COL$180,900) from waterstones