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What is the value of the Dow Jones today if its shares component had remained unchanged since 1982?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_components_of_the_Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average # August_30.2C_1982 August 30, 1982 Allied Chemical Company General Electric Company Owens-Illinois Glass Aluminum American Foods, Procter & American General Gamble Company General Motors Corporation Is Sears Roebuck & Company U.S. company Standard Oil Goodyear Express * American Telephone California & Telegraph Inco Texaco Incorporated American Tobacco B International Business Machines Union Carbide Bethlehem Steel Corporation United Technologies International Harvester International Bridge U.S. Steel Paper Company Eastman Kodak Company Merck & Company, Inc. Westinghouse Electric Corporation Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Exxon Woolworth

It is absolutely no way to say this, but changes in component stocks too would obviate the DJIA in determining the direction the market is going ..