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Cool Calculators
and Other Neat Reference Tools


This compilation of cool calculators can help do some fast figuring for:

COST OF LIVING

Cost-of-Living Calculator (CPI)
Compare dollar values over time. Select categories of items and individual cities or regions. Click here to go directly to the calculator for comparing all categories for the United States.

Cost-of-Living Calculator
Compares dollar values over time, 1913-1997.

CURRENCY EXCHANGE

Universal Currency Converter
Select the currencies you want to convert to and from and it will calculate the equivalence based on the most recent exchange rate.

Currency Converter
Choose the date of exchange, select the currencies you want to convert to and from and it will calculate the equivalence.

DISTANCES BETWEEN CITIES

CyberRouter
Road miles ... this is a neat program that creates driving directions and maps and also gives you the number of miles traveled. Great for expense reports."

How Far is it?
Air miles ... Uses the University of Michigan Geographic Name Server to find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies). It also provides a map showing the two places, using the Xerox PARC Map Server."

PERCENT CHANGE

Percent Change
Plug in two numbers and automatically calculate the percent increase or decrease.

TRANSLATION

Language translator
Automatically translates any word or phrase to or from any language. If you have a URL, it will also translate an entire web page for you.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES

Cooking Calculator
Calculates Volume, Temperature, and Weight

Weights & Measures
A calculator of various weights and measures. First select the converting unit (time, length, temperature, area - 18 in all), then click on Go. Then choose what you want to convert to and from and click on Recompute.


Other great calculators and look-up pages:

DATES

Perpetual Calendar
What day of the week was Kennedy's assassination?
Plug in month and year in the form and a calendar for the month will be displayed. Always click on reload once you get the month and year you choose.

MORTGAGE LOANS

Loan Qualification Calculator
Compute the loan amount you may qualify for by plugging in income, savings, interest rates and loan term.

NUTRITIONAL VALUE

USDA Nutritional Values
Search by food item (e.g. doughnut) to get the USDA nutritional values (calories, fat, etc.) for that item.

POPULATION

1990 census
Every question on the Census for every place in the United States

SALARY EQUIVALENTS

Relocation Salary Calculator
Figure out how much you will need to make to match your current standard of living in another town by plugging in your annual income, other expenses, and the cities from which and to which you're relocating.

Relocation Salary Calculator
Figure out how much you will need to make to match your current standard of living in another town by plugging in your annual income, origin and destination cities (for 450 cities).

ZIP CODE

U.S. Postal Service ZIP+4 Lookup -- BY ADDRESS
The county it is in is also given.

U.S. Postal Service ZIP+4 Lookup -- BY ZIP CODE
Have a zip code and need the city or have a city and need the zip code? Use this form.


Other online calculators can be found at http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/HSG/RefCalculators.html

Last updated by Sperry Krueger, September 1998.


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