Same here. Now I can’t remember which key it was on.
naita, don’t you mean %3 of the total?
In case anyone is wondering, **Chronos **is referring to post 19#.
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So much easier to remember that ¢ is option- (actually, option-4, since option- is really option-shift-4) than it is to remember alt codes. I don’t understand why Windows never developed a more Mac-like keyboard, where nearly all of the extended ASCII characters are logically mapped.
It isn’t just currency symbols ($ has the same problem as £¥€ etc) but º is also a problem.
1ºC is wrong. Should be 1 C (or K, F, R etc). Angles still get to be º, but you get into all manner of problems with how you are specifying an angle anyway. (My day job involves two systems that specify both angles and geographic locations. Both specify all angles in radians, but one uses N = 0, and positive clockwise, the other E = 0 and positive anticlockwise. It can be a source of evil problems.) Not to mention relative, true, magnetic.
I have a habit of writing down currency values as things like 2k. Which is awful. But probably no worse than 2k in some ways.
Then you get abominations like $2 USD
Why not ¢2?
That’s not snark, by the way. It’s a real question that I don’t know the answer to.
If the dollar sign comes before the value, why does the cent sign come after it?
The reason you see it in casual writing is because people are not writing sentences, but rather transcribing their speech in real-time. Since one says “one hundred dollars,” and the brain is coming up with the words extemporaneously, people naturally write the “100” first, and only after realize they should have included the sign first. Since the message is casual, expediency wins out over convention, so the person just says "fuck it, I don't feel like deleting 3 digits and starting over so I'll put the sign after since they’ll still know what I mean."
It really gets under my skin when people do that.
Why is it wrong? I know that 1ºK is wrong because the Kelvin is a unit, but the degree Celsius is the unit for the Celsius scale so 1ºC is fine. Same for Fahrenheit.
So ten francs is 10f, oui? How about Euros?
My guess is that it gives additional differentiation between dollars and cents.
You’ll sometimes see a similar system with dates. CE 1500 or AD 1500, but 1500 BCE or 1500 BC.
Sometimes written as €10 and sometimes as 10€ in continental Europe.
Surely 10 F or 10 € is more common? Someone ought to look in Brossard’s Correcteur typographe for a comprehensive treatment.
The European Union was doomed from the beginning!
The biggest part of the “Aid” to Canada appears to be the parts of money for a joint Canadian/US environmental protection program that is paid to entities that happen to be Canadian.
The “Aid” to France appear to be tiny parts of big government programs that are paid to French entities, although it’s difficult to say exactly whom, since whomever is receiving the money in France isn’t listed.
It’s definitely a rubbish definition of “Foreign aid”.
Ack. Quite correct. The symbol for Celsius is ºC not C. Whereas the symbol for Kelvin is just K.
Write a number and another number on the same piece of paper. Write an identifying symbol between them. Which does it refer to?
$ is big, ¢ is little. The hierarchy makes sense here.
I’m not understanding. Can someone help me out with this explanation?