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- ********
where do you people put the currency symbol?
€100 or 100€
is there a EU norm for this? I've seen it both ways around here.
- ********0
holy piss!
- mrs_emecks0
I would say 100€ but the european central bank's website puts it the other way round. http://www.ecb.eu/bc/banknotes/s…
They should know...
- ********0
lol, they sure look in charge of it. thank you so mu€h.
- ********0
:€
^ that's a brussels moustache.
- mrs_emecks0
hahaha.
no probs
:)
- mrs_emecks0
whooops!
when you select a different language on the website it changes (e.g. de)!!
suppose you can use both...
- PonyBoy0
just spell it out
'euros'
done. :)
- ********0
holy juices! do try it in greek... there's not even the symbol. wtf is this, lol?!
- mrs_emecks0
"Placement of the sign is also an example of diversity. While the official recommendation is to place it before the number (but contraventing ISO recommendations to place unit symbols after numbers), people in many countries have kept the placement of their former currencies. This is the case in Spain and France, where people are reluctant to change to a system they find somewhat illogical (writing the currency before, "€2", but reading it after, as in "deux/dos euros"). In France, therefore, € 3,50 is often written as 3€50 instead, following the conventional style for the franc: (example 22F96). Recently people in France, Portugal, Spain and sometimes Belgium and Italy have started to write 3,75€ more often."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eur…
Aha!
- ********0
There! no rule after all. that's ok i guess.
btw, ponyboy: "euros" is not enough coz it's spelled differently everywhere.
- gramme0
:[
*strokes handlebar mustache
*eats a gyro—
- Jaline0
I wish it was 100$ because it really does make more sense that way. But...I guess it's easier and cleaner to make statistic-based documents and you'll know it's a money amount as soon as you see the first character, which is a '$'.
- gramme0
ha, never thought of it that way...
'dollars one hundred'
- PonyBoy0
it makes more 'sense' in front of the number...
... when you're reading it in a sentence... you actually say 'one hundred dollars' and not 'dollars one hundred' (haha)... but the '$' in front of the number prompts you immediatly so you know to say 'one hundred dollars'...
... yep... i'd like to have all denominatory marks in FRONT of the number.
is denominatory a word? I just made it up I think... ya'll can use it if you want. :)
- Jaline0
well, put the $ sign after the number makes more sense in the literal way that '$' = dollars.
If we were taught to recognize the '$' sign after the '100' then we'd automatically say '100 dollars'. It's the same way as we are cultured to say '100 dollars' when we see the '$' sign before the '100'.
So it'd be weird to change it now.
- PonyBoy0
good point, jaline...
... if we recogonize a period at the end of the sentence before we 'get to that point' in the sentence (and still properly read the sentence)...
... we could handle the sign at the end of the number most definetly... :)
- ********0
i agree. it makes more sense to read 100$ but in setting the text like $100 you immediatly see it's not a number but a quantity.
anyway, i should write §100 coz my many hurricanes out my pocket like jesus into the heavens.
- PonyBoy0
hahaha...is that a hurricane symbol??
what's that used for??
§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§...
please be nice to me and my ignorance for the true usage of this mark... :)
- kelpie0
is it not some arcane bullet or something, from ye olde tymes of copperplate writting and whatnot?
