Don't lowball me, man!

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I personally don't have it that bad but I've similar thoughts about written units. I must admit I do prefer everything working the same and as such think the dollar sign in front is extremely cursed.

I also hate how few people use the ISO 8601 date standard which is super intuitive and machine friendly. And no matter what there is no excuse for the mm.dd.yyyy format.

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aren't they supposed to look at the fully written out

"One hundred dollars 0/100" part of the check. Either way someone can slip in a 1 or a zero somewhere in the paper.

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Luckily no one remembered to put it in the middle yet, which I assume is only because 50€10 looks cursed.

Exceptionally, the symbol for the Cape Verdean escudo (like the Portuguese escudo, to which it was formerly pegged) is placed in the decimal separator position, as in 2$50.

From Wikipedia

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l10n is a bitch. The exceptions are almost as bad as timezones...

The swiss use ' as a separator. So they would write 900'000 which upside down would look like 000,006 so the confusion could continue

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That's the text portion, not the numeric portion.

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You've read it backwards. Its $15.20
Or to be exact 15.20€. So its spoken 15 Euros, 20.

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It's standard. Same goes for roubles.

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Oh, I still do the $100.°/oo~~~~ in the numeric section too.

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Excellent work.

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The they in your sentence, at one point in time, referred to me and my three buddies who worked for Commerce Bank back in the oughts. They left four kids, one of them 18 and the rest 17, in charge of a bank sometimes. I may be personally responsible for commerce bank ceasing to exist.

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I see. I assumed you meant the words because you put the words in your comment.

Seems like a good idea to do both, as you say.

I don't really write a lot of checks any more.

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Pretty sure the printing out of the amount with letters prevents that.

One hundred dollars -------xx/00

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You could do a similar thing for the other style:

100$

Vs

-------- 100$

I would write it $100, but only because it's convention, either method has the same issue and solutions.

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100.00$ vs $100.00 I guess? Though I suppose you could turn the period into a comma.

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To a large extent yes. The only exception I know is, like @[email protected] mentioned, Portugal that used the 100$00 format and now uses the 0.5€ format.

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$100$

Use them like quotes to cover all your bases.

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sweden does something similarly weird. we don't have a currency symbol (unless you count "kr") so the standard way to write a price is "20:-", which used to be "20kr, 0öre", with the colon as the decimal separator and the line added so you couldn't write in another value, but then we switched decimal separator for currency to "," and ":-" just became the symbol for "money".

you even occasionally see abominations like "19,90:-"...

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Like spanish question marks, it's good that you put the first $ upside down.

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LaTeX: ok, I'll print out 100 in math mode. No problem

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It's interesting that you have :- as the symbol for money when here :- is the symbol for forgetting to give your ASCII smiley a mouth.