Re: Current value of money in any given past year?

Bitstring <OREn$Rkw+YjDFwup@xxxxxxxxx>, from the wonderful person David Floyd <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said
In message of Wed, 30 Nov 2005, GSV Three Minds in a Can writes
Bitstring <1133329887.955495.57970@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, from the wonderful person Alex Flaherty <vanessa.savage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said 
Is there a website anywhere that will allow me to enter an amount of
money and a historic year and it will tell me how much that money is
worth today?

If you mean 'dividing it by RPI' (i.e. £1 in 1987 is worth 37p now, or whatever), then it depends how far you want to go back .. RPI numbers only exist back through somewhere in the 19xx's (and I only have them back to about 1980). So if you were going to stick in '1632' you'd be pretty much out of luck.

However inflation as a problem/concept didn't really get going until fairly recently, as far as I know.


Depends what you mean by fairly recently. 

This century - well, really some time after the Boer War, iirc.

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