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Your comment made me realize that most unit notation I'm familiar with has the unit as a suffix, with currency being the only standout that comes to mind.
by vageli 6y ago
Your comment made me realize that most unit notation I'm familiar with has the unit as a suffix, with currency being the only standout that comes to mind.
- roywiggins 6y agoIt depends on the currency / country, too. Lots of countries put the currency afterwards, even "¢" comes after. $ and £ come before, but € ends up moving depending on the language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_and_the_euro#Written_conventions_for_the_euro_in_the_languages_of_EU_member_states https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_and_the_euro#Written_...
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- gorkish 6y agoBinary, ocatal and hexidecimal literals often are indicated with prefixes: 0b, 0 and 0x respectively. There are probably other esoteric cases that I can't think of off the top of my head. "Qty" is often prefixed, for instance. It's a complicated problem for a natural language calculator, to be sure. Here are a couple examples of ways to represent four thousand Canadian dollars that you might encounter and have no trouble interpreting as a human. This could be a good target for an ML tokenizer... -$4000CAD CA$-4,000.00 4.000,00CAD$