Re:Show HN: Create landing pages by copy-paste
by Kuinox on Sunday August 02, 2020 @06:16PM
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Yes, we write 49€. It's how you spell it, fourty nine euro.
Actually, it depends where, but most of the country put the sign at the end, like most notations.
Re:Show HN: Create landing pages by copy-paste
by cocoapuffs7 on Sunday August 02, 2020 @06:30PM
(#24032345)
Although in juxtaposition from the English pronunciation, it has an advantage:
"If it was written as 1,200.00$ it would be easier to forge it to become, for example, 91,200.00$ by appending a single digit in front."
Re:Show HN: Create landing pages by copy-paste
by 101008 on Sunday August 02, 2020 @07:06PM
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It is the same if it goes before.
$100 can become $1000 or whatever. It is in fact this the reason checks have the quantity written in letters too, and also a dash that occupies the rest of the space.
Re:Show HN: Create landing pages by copy-paste
by whatl3y on Sunday August 02, 2020 @09:54PM
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It’s not the same if you complete the amount with cents. 100.00$ can become 9100.00$ much easier than $100.00.
I explicitly and carefully write out my tip and total with a dollar sign and cents and sometimes circle the total in an attempt to prevent the temptation for anyone to alter the amount (I’ve heard this happening to a could of friends back in college at restaurants and bars).
Re:Show HN: Create landing pages by copy-paste
by krick on Sunday August 02, 2020 @06:17PM
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It isn't really about currencies, it's about languages: pretty much every language other than English uses "49 €" form. So I guess, writing all currency signs before the number is pretty commonplace now, but that's probably because americans are notoriously, well, american-centric.
Re:Show HN: Create landing pages by copy-paste
by rglullis on Sunday August 02, 2020 @06:59PM
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Hum... pretty sure that the Europeans are the exception in those. Majority of American and Asian countries use the currency symbol before the amount, Africans are split.
Re:Show HN: Create landing pages by copy-paste
by kickling on Sunday August 02, 2020 @06:23PM
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50:- or 50 kr is how 50 kronor is written in sweden (and probably all of scandinavia).
Re:Show HN: Create landing pages by copy-paste
by hamza_nouali on Sunday August 02, 2020 @06:17PM
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Oh, I didn't know that. Thank you!
Are there currencies that write it at the end instead?