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I'm setting up an online ordering system but I'm in Australia and for international customers I'd like to show prices in US dollars or Euros so they don't have to make the mental effort to convert from Australian dollars.  Does anyone know if I can pull up to date exchange rates off the net somewhere in an easy-to-parse format I can access from my PHP script ?    UPDATE: I have now written a PHP class which implements this. . Is the electromagnetic spectrum discrete? Finding the limit $\displaystyle\lim_{x\to 0+} \left(\frac{\sin x}x\right)^{1/{x^2}}$ Find the following limit: $$\displaystyle\lim_{x\to 0+} \left(\frac{\sin x}x\right)^{1/{x^2}}$$   Well I tried to do the $\exp\left(\frac{ \ln\frac{\sin x}{x}}{x^2}\right)$ then apply LHR but I seem to get to endless dervivations...   There's got to be a more simple approach. How to properly hook up various maps types in Cycles? I created some texture maps in MindTex to use in Blender, but I can't figure out how to properly hook them up. The maps I have:  - Diffuse  - Normal  - Height   - Specular   - Gloss   - Self Illumination  - Reflection  - Ambient Occlusion   MindTex (left) vs. Blender (right)  As you can clearly see it's a pretty big difference.  is my material node setup in Blender. In the examples I don't actually use self illumination or reflection images, but including this in the answer would be helpful. How to cleanly launch a GUI app via the Terminal? Some GUI apps launch cleanly via the Terminal command line, but some don't, and they cause the Terminal to wait for the app to terminate. Even then, some don't "release" the command line.  The mysterious ampersand &amp; suffix seems to cause the terminal to put the process into the background (but I'm not sure what happens there).  Is there a way to launch an app via the Terminal so that there is no "hang on" effect, just like launching something via Alt+F2?  I'd like to have the command line available again immediately, without something still in the background and printing in the terminal. How to create old looking/ cracked glass I am looking for old looking cracked glass for a window in a shack scene. I have looked everywhere but can find a tutorial or material or model on this please can someone help me on this thanks Proving the convergence of $\sum\limits_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{1+z^n}$ for $|z| > 1$ $\sum\limits_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{1+z^n}$, $|z|&gt;1$.  There are two facts that my professor uses that I am confused about.  The first is: $|1+z^n| \geq ||z|^n-1|$, I believe this is true for any $|z|$.  The other is: $\frac{1}{|z|^n-1} \leq \frac{2}{|z|^n}$, I believe this is also true for any $|z|$.  Can anyone prove these statements for me? What Constitutes Spam? Over the course of the past several months, there have been one or more users who have been spamming about an XML parsing alternative named &quot;VTD-XML&quot;. I have occasionally assisted the moderators by pointing these answers out to them, and they have responded by deleting the answers, and the offending user (which hasn't stopped this person from immediately creating another user account and continuing). Now, there is a user , who claims to be the actual author of VTD-XML. In my mind, several of his answers, like his  to  looks a great deal like the original spam.  has asked me why I consider his answer to be spam. I decided to do so in public, in an attempt to get him to engage with this community, assuming he's not another sock puppet of the original spammer.  My reason is simple: he's been answering with one or two lines of text, followed by the exact same link to the exact same site that the spammer was using:  VTD-XML may well be worth a look as it is 1/3~1/5 the memory usage of DOM   Now, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this does not constitute spam. Maybe Mr. Zhang can explain to us why we should not treat these posts as spam. Let's see.  Somehow, I missed the fact that in the same question, on July 31 2009:  how about vtd-xml  http://vtd-xml.sf.net   This one was from a user named &quot;Jimmy Zhang&quot;, which has since been deleted. Should I not be suspicious? Additionally, as pointed out by , he's answering a question about Delphi by posting a link to a site that doesn't even mention Delphi! Throughout the nonsense with the sock puppets, I kept asking for some real engagement from the sock puppet. It all just made VTD-XML look bad that instead of truly answering questions, we just kept getting incessant spam against old XML questions. Appeal Mr. Zhang, if you're not just desperately spamming StackOverflow because your product isn't selling, then please answer appropriate questions in a way that will actually help someone use your product to solve their problems. Database program with CSV import and ad-hoc SQL queries? Is there a database program for the Mac that makes it easy to import a CSV file into a table and then query and manipulate the data using ad-hoc SQL queries?  (A Windows example of a similar product would be Microsoft Access ... it also has forms and reports, which are not as important, but I would not mind a Mac solution that has those too.) I am trying to solve this exercise from Royden's 3rd edition.     The question is as follows: Let $f$ be a real-valued function defined for all real numbers. Show that the set of points at which $f$ is continuous is a $G_{\delta}$.    Let $$A_n = \{y : \text{there is a }~\delta_y \gt 0 : |f(s)-f(t)|\lt 1/n ~ \text{whenever}~ s,t \in (y-\delta, y+\delta)\}\;.$$     Then by the definition of open sets, $A_n$ is open.     To complete the proof, I need help in showing that $f$ is continuous at say $x$ if and only if $x\in \cap A_n$.     If $f$ is continuous at $x$, the there is a $\delta \gt 0$ such that $|f(x) - f(a)| \lt 1/n$ whenever, $x\in (a-\delta, a+\delta)$. so $x \in A_n$ son it must be in $\cap A_n$.  Thanks. How do I redirect command output to a file? I am just looking for some clarification on this exercise:  Let $A = \{a,b,c,d\}$. Give an example of a relation $R$ on $A^2$ which is reflexive, symmetric, and not transitive.  I understand that if I was only dealing with $A$ and and not $A^2$ I could give an answer similar to:  $R = \{(a,a),(a,b),(a,d),(b,a),(b,b),(c,c),(d,a),(d,d)\}$  Here $R$ is reflexive, symmetric, and not transitive.  What is confusing me is the fact that we have $A^2$. I am not sure what I am missing here. I am looking through my book to see if I can figure this out, but if someone could help shed some light on this it would be appreciated.  Thanks,  Tony I found the .bashrc file and I want to know the purpose/function of it. Also how and when is it used? How do I integrate the following $$\int \frac{dx}{\sin^3 x + \cos^3 x}$$ ?  It appears that I am supposed to break this up into $(\sin x + \cos x)(1-\cos x \sin x)$, but the next thing to do is not apparent to me. can't find using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls namespace Do megapixels matter with modern sensor technology? Automatically capitalise the first word in each sentence How to assign values to a MATLAB matrix on the diagonal? How to parse JSON in Java How to increase swap size?