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Feedback: consider ditching the .00 on the numbers and spelling out "million"/"billion." It's a lot easier to quickly read "$36.2 million" than "$36,200,000.00"
by mi100hael 9y ago
Feedback: consider ditching the .00 on the numbers and spelling out "million"/"billion." It's a lot easier to quickly read "$36.2 million" than "$36,200,000.00"
- ebellity 9y agoRight, thanks
- thisisit 9y agoAgreed. For sometime I was scratching my head trying to understand the exact figures. The standard format is "in thousands".
- ssdd 9y agoAt least numbers looks humongous at first glance with it. :)
- pc86 9y agoGo the federal budget route, round down until you get to "in thousands" or "in millions" for everything. Then it's still easy to compare $12 to $36,000 at a glance without staring at a table full of 000,000.00 :)
- jamez1 9y agoIt's about information entropy, you want to maximize the information each character has. using 1000 digits to show what you could in 500 and a header saying "(in thousands)" maximizes the entropy
- atticusberg 9y agoOr better yet, $36.2M
- subdane 9y agoHere's one I always wonder about: $36.2M; $36.2m; $36.2mm; ?
- lotsofpulp 9y agoK, M, B, T, Q thousand, million, billion, trillion, quadrillion. I'm not a fan of M and MM and MMM, it's much easier to use one letter that is different from the others.
- rsp1984 9y agoCan't upvote this enough. I get the urge to just stop reading whenever I come across "MM". Just use "m" or "M" for millions, for heaven's sake.
- mi100hael 9y agoIt's a finance thing. M = roman numeral for 1,000.
- esalazar 9y agoI think MM is the common way to denote million in finance. I believe it comes from one thousand (roman numeral M) thousands (roman numeral M) or MM.
- troels 9y agoWell. A Billion is ambiguous. In many countries, it's called a Milliard. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
- mandelbrotwurst 9y agoI don't think the fact that there are multiple words that represent the same thing means that one is ambiguous. A "billion" is always 10^9, so it's not ambiguous, no?
- drenvuk 9y agoI think this depends on the individual. I always prefer the version with commas instead of words. It's easier to copy and paste for one.
- ThrustVectoring 9y agoAlso, right-aligning numbers that readers want to compare is generally a good idea.
- gupir 9y agoI agree to drop the ".00", but I prefer the number $36,200,000.
- amelius 9y agoMake it configurable!