I demand satisfaction; pistols at dawn!
When I’m writing numbers, I make an 8 with two counter-clockwise circles, and a 9 with a single clockwise motion. Neither is how I was taught, but I find them more legible.
Nah, not persuaded that a one- or two-syllable difference per term is sufficient reason to keep putting up with the inconsistent metrology of English units instead of the more streamlined metric units.
Not that non-metric systems need to be abolished or anything, just that overall, metric is Clearly Better.
The Belgian singer Angèle, who sings in French, titled her most recent album Nonante-Cinq. I guess as a reflection of her Belgian pride.
Short words good; sesquipedalian vocabulary unacceptable.
What are you, Australian? A “9” should be made with a single counter-clockwise motion. (And certainly not as a hobo’s bindle.)
Serif font capital i >> Sans serif capital i
IIlllIIIllIllI - Which are capital i and which are lower case l? Ill, this makes me.
Right now, the smallest unit of physical currency in the US is 10 mills. Under the proposed change, the smallest unit of physical currency would be 1 dime. If we’re OK with vestigial mills now, why shouldn’t we also be OK with vestigial cents?
Cite?
Tee-hee, 10 mills = 1 penny.
AIUI, the US federal government never minted a 1-mill coin (though I believe there were some half-cent = 5-mill US coins made at some point?). But states were allowed to mint and circulate them for, e.g., paying sub-penny sales taxes. I don’t think any US jurisdiction makes sub-penny coins nowadays.
I was taught, and I’d guess most Americans are, to make a counter-clockwise circle, and a vertical stroke. That looks rather inelegant to me, so I do a single clockwise motionfinishing at the end of the tail. It’s clearly a superior notation.
This thread is also reminding me of a line from a TV show, “he likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise.”
Yeah, that’s the hobo’s bindle method. Very ugly, in mine opinion. I start from the bottom, go up counter-clockwise, reducing the radius to form a smaller circle. So it looks like a printed “9”.
This is where I miss the old vBulletin headslap smiley.
So in the US, prices would only use 1 decimal place? So $2.50 would now be $2.5? Interesting. We’d have to scrap the quarter. ($0.25 for you non- Americans).
Or as another poster proposed getting rid of decimals entirely. $2.50 is $25