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>Can your currency code handle sea shells? I'm afraid it mine can only handle sea shells! >I only mention it because the yen thing surprised me once as a newb
by pretoriusB 14y ago
>Can your currency code handle sea shells?
I'm afraid it mine can only handle sea shells!
>I only mention it because the yen thing surprised me once as a newbie programmer.
So what's the yen thing? How does it differ?
- xnxn 14y agoThe yen has no fractional units (anymore), so when I added support for that currency but continued to use the same format string as all the others, prices like ¥1000.00 looked unnatural.
- snogglethorpe 14y agoThe historical subunit of the yen is the "sen" (銭), which you often seen mentioned in prewar books. Postwar inflation made sen-denominated currency obsolete, but... [A bit of googling also turns up the "rin" (厘), which is a thousandth of a yen...]