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minus-squareT. Hex@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoYes and no, I guess. It’s the arbitrary, prescriptive way to write cents that USians learn in school. It would look wrong to me if I saw a sign advertising something for ¢50 or 0.50$. That said, I also learned to always put commas inside the quotation, “like so,” but I think that’s super dumb and I refuse to do it.
minus-squareTrainguyrom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·16 hours agoThe part that throws me is the regions that use a comma instead of a decimal, although I suppose that might simply be a holdover from non-decimal currencies
Yes and no, I guess. It’s the arbitrary, prescriptive way to write cents that USians learn in school.
It would look wrong to me if I saw a sign advertising something for ¢50 or 0.50$.
That said, I also learned to always put commas inside the quotation, “like so,” but I think that’s super dumb and I refuse to do it.
The part that throws me is the regions that use a comma instead of a decimal, although I suppose that might simply be a holdover from non-decimal currencies
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