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Notation for money - more questions
Following the feedback I got on my original thread, I would use money figures as follows:
$50, $520,000, etc.
2 more questions:Q1: How should I write a million dollars?
- $1,000,000
- $1 Million
- $1 million
Q2: Shortcuts. Suppose I have many money figures in a table. Can I say "All amounts are in $1,000" and write in the table figures such as 20, 100, 230, etc. ?
Please note - I am NOT refering to a legal document.
TIA,
Noam
I used to think the brain was the most wonderful organ in the entire body... then I realized who was telling me this. Emo Phillips
$50, $520,000, etc.
2 more questions:Q1: How should I write a million dollars?
- $1,000,000
- $1 Million
- $1 million
Q2: Shortcuts. Suppose I have many money figures in a table. Can I say "All amounts are in $1,000" and write in the table figures such as 20, 100, 230, etc. ?
Please note - I am NOT refering to a legal document.
TIA,
Noam
I used to think the brain was the most wonderful organ in the entire body... then I realized who was telling me this. Emo Phillips
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Noam Avnery typed thus: [nq:1]Following the feedback I got on my original thread, I would use money figures as follows: $50, $520,000, etc. 2 more questions: Q1: How should I write a million dollars? - $1,000,000 - $1 Million - $1 million[/nq] These all look OK to me, but I am British.
- Noam Avnery typed thus: [nq:1]Following the feedback I got on my original thread, I would use money figures as follows: $50, $520,000, etc.
- 2 more questions: Q1: How should I write a million dollars?
- - $1,000,000 - $1 Million - $1 million[/nq] These all look OK to me, but I am British.
- [nq:1]Q2: Shortcuts.
- Suppose I have many money figures in a table.
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Noam Avnery typed thus:
[nq:1]Following the feedback I got on my original thread, I would use money figures as follows: $50, $520,000, etc. 2 more questions: Q1: How should I write a million dollars? - $1,000,000 - $1 Million - $1 million[/nq]
These all look OK to me, but I am British.
[nq:1]Q2: Shortcuts. Suppose I have many money figures in a table. Can I say "All amounts are in $1,0
[nq:1]Following the feedback I got on my original thread, I would use money figures as follows: $50, $520,000, etc. 2 more questions: Q1: How should I write a million dollars? - $1,000,000 - $1 Million - $1 million[/nq]
These all look OK to me, but I am British.
[nq:1]Q2: Shortcuts. Suppose I have many money figures in a table. Can I say "All amounts are in $1,0
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(Email Removed) (Noam Avnery) wrote on 21 Feb 2004:
[nq:1]Following the feedback I got on my original thread, I would use money figures as follows: $50, $520,000, etc. 2 more questions: Q1: How should I write a million dollars? - $1,000,000 - $1 Million - $1 million[/nq]
The last is the preferred way of the three given, I think.
[nq:1]Q2: Shortcuts. Suppose I have many money figures in
[nq:1]Following the feedback I got on my original thread, I would use money figures as follows: $50, $520,000, etc. 2 more questions: Q1: How should I write a million dollars? - $1,000,000 - $1 Million - $1 million[/nq]
The last is the preferred way of the three given, I think.
[nq:1]Q2: Shortcuts. Suppose I have many money figures in
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[nq:1]Q1: How should I write a million dollars? - $1,000,000 - $1 Million - $1 million[/nq]
The last is the usual style in the U.S. (journalism & academia).
If I were dictator, I would make it 1 M$. I would say: use the dollar sign in the oldfashioned way only before a single unadorned numeral: $1.25, $33. Otherwise (with powers of 1000, and in compound units), treat it just like an S
The last is the usual style in the U.S. (journalism & academia).
If I were dictator, I would make it 1 M$. I would say: use the dollar sign in the oldfashioned way only before a single unadorned numeral: $1.25, $33. Otherwise (with powers of 1000, and in compound units), treat it just like an S
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[nq:2]Q1: How should I write a million dollars? - $1,000,000 - $1 Million - $1 million[/nq]
[nq:1]The last is the usual style in the U.S. (journalism & academia). If I were dictator, I would make it ... ("What's this `one dollar million'?"). For a while, some of them compromised by making it $1-million. But they have prevailed.[/nq]
I'm more used to seeing $1 m in newspapers. I only get wo
[nq:1]The last is the usual style in the U.S. (journalism & academia). If I were dictator, I would make it ... ("What's this `one dollar million'?"). For a while, some of them compromised by making it $1-million. But they have prevailed.[/nq]
I'm more used to seeing $1 m in newspapers. I only get wo
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[nq:1]I only get worried when they talk about billions and trillions.[/nq]
That's billions and billions, Carl.
Charles Riggs
My email address: chriggs/at/eircom/dot/net
That's billions and billions, Carl.
Charles Riggs
My email address: chriggs/at/eircom/dot/net
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[nq:2]The last is the usual style in the U.S. (journalism ... them compromised by making it $1-million. But they have prevailed.[/nq]
[nq:1]I'm more used to seeing $1 m in newspapers. I only get worried when they talk about billions and trillions.[/nq]
The amount $1,200,000 is written as "$1.2 million" and read as "one point two million dollars" (or is it read as "one point two million", w
[nq:1]I'm more used to seeing $1 m in newspapers. I only get worried when they talk about billions and trillions.[/nq]
The amount $1,200,000 is written as "$1.2 million" and read as "one point two million dollars" (or is it read as "one point two million", w
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[nq:1]The amount $1,200,000 is written as "$1.2 million" and read as "one point two million dollars" (or is it read ... as people (consciously or subconsciously) sense a gap in the language, there will remain a void in the language there.[/nq]
Are you suggesting that $1,200,000 be written as "twelve lakhs of dollars"? In that case how would you write $120,000? Or $120,000,000?
[nq:1]The amount $1,200,000 is written as "$1.2 million" and read as "one point two million dollars" (or is it read ... as people (consciously or subconsciously) sense a gap in the language, there will remain a void in the language there.[/nq]
Are you suggesting that $1,200,000 be written as "twelve lakhs of dollars"? In that case how would you write $120,000? Or $120,000,000?
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