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Since Canada has replaced the one and two dollar bills with more durable coins, the $5 note is the smallest denomination tracked by Where's Willy . The Free site, established by Hank Eskin, a computer consultant in Brookline, Massachusetts , allows people to enter their local Postal Code and the serial and series of any Canadian Denomination from $5 up to $100 they want to track. Once a bill is registered, the site reports the time between sightings, the distance traveled and any comments from the finders, and anyone who registered the bill earlier learns about it by e-mail and/or text messaging. To increase the chance of having a bill reported, users write or stamp text on the bills encouraging bill finders to visit www.whereswilly.com and track the bill's travels. Where's Willy is a Currency Tracking spinoff of Where's George , a site that tracks United States dollars. WILLY INDEX The "Willy Index" is a method of rating users based on how many bills they've entered and also by how many total hits they've had. The formula is as follows:
Because of the nature of Square Root s and Natural Logarithm s, the higher a user's bills entered and hits are, the more of each are necessary to increase the score. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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