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>$100.000 each day For clarity & comment skimmers: TFA uses $100,000 in the subheading and beyond. Some European countries use `.` as a thousands separator, s
by petecooper 3y ago
>$100.000 each day
For clarity & comment skimmers:
TFA uses $100,000 in the subheading and beyond. Some European countries use `.` as a thousands separator, so it's not "a hundred dollars a day".
- veave 3y agoNo one uses 3 digits to represent cents, so nobody is going to interpret this as a hundred dollars a day.
- viraptor 3y agoBahraini Dinar (and some other Dinars I believe) use 3 digits for their currency. I wouldn't assume no dollar does it. Sure, it's very unlikely. But if you've never dealt with some other currency, it may not by that obvious.
- shagie 3y agoPrior to the decimalization of the stock market, I'd see $42.0625 and similar prices. 0.0625 being 1/16th of a dollar. Post 2001, the requirements are that that stocks traded for under $1.00 may have a minimum spread of $0.0001 and so you still can see it and have to work with it.
- jcpst 3y agoIt took me a minute. My brain saw the period and then truncated the third zero to make sense of it. This is pretty common in humans. But because I thought that one hundred dollars was odd, I read the article, which I then realized it was one hundred thousand.
- generic92034 3y agoThere are some exceptions: BHD Bahraini Dinar IQD Iraqui Dinar JOD Jordanian Dinar KWD Kuwaiti Dinar LYD Libyan Dinar OMR Omani Rial TND Tunisian Dinar
- closewith 3y agoAlthough GP is still technically correct, as a cent is by definition 1/100th of a unit of currency. The above all use fils instead.
- sho_hn 3y ago"Falsehoods programmers believe about time^Wmoney (Reference to https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b923ca https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b...)
- securingsincity 3y agoA decent list for this about prices and currency https://gist.github.com/rgs/6509585 https://gist.github.com/rgs/6509585 and the full list of other falsehoods https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
- ComputerGuru 3y agoGasoline in the USA was (is?) priced to the third decimal place (always a 9).
- jacquesm 3y agoCent is short for 'centime' or 1/100th, so indeed, nobody is using three digits to represent cents. But there are currencies with finer grained denominations than cents. 0, 2, 3, 4 are all in use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217
- petecooper 3y agoThat's fair. I stand corrected. Thank you.
- vidarh 3y agoNorway being one of those.
- anilakar 3y agoNobody should use punctuation as thousands separator regardless of which side you are on.
- Filligree 3y agoCommas are punctuation too... so what are you proposing?
- bondant 3y agoCould use a space or an underscore: 100 000 100_000
- GhostWhisperer 3y agowhy not '
- rphln 3y agoHow about U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE? 1 000 (Narrow nbsp) 1 000 (Regular nbsp) (Assuming HN even allows it.)
- registeredcorn 3y agoInteresting! Do you know of any countries that use the underscore? I believe I've seen France(...?) use spaces as a separator, but I've never come across the underscore. Personally I would like some means of breaking up units of triplets that could be used universally. It's frustrating that there isn't a standard across the globe for such crucial means of expression. It wasn't until fairly recently that I learned that the comma wasn't the universal standard.
- bondant 3y ago
- boxed 3y agoI have experienced this pain, and wrote an article about it: https://kodare.net/2021/04/04/safe_number_parsing.html https://kodare.net/2021/04/04/safe_number_parsing.html