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Year of Wikipedia
Yearly expenditure of Wikimedia Foundation, 2007/8 for US$3,541 thousand (JP¥351,400 thousand) from wikipedia
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Nissan Micra
Car for £7,820 (JP¥1,191 thousand)
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1 One cube of gold one meter in size
One cube of gold one meter in size for US$1,038 thousand (JP¥103 million) from hardcoded -
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700 Thumbs
Criminal injuries compensation for loss of thumb, 1996. for £15 thousand (JP¥2,284 thousand) from source -
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Cost of a floating duck island, claimed as an expense by Conservative MP, Peter Viggers. for £1,645 (JP¥250,500) from wikipedia -
300 Random number tables
"A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates" by Michael D. Rich for £62 (JP¥9,440) from waterstones