Re:Why Is the Dollar Sign a Letter S?
by jzwinck on Sunday February 08, 2015 @07:21PM
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The British put their currency symbol in front as well.
Malaysians write theirs like "RM8"; RM being their local currency symbol despite the ISO one being MYR (this happens because ISO puts the country first but many countries would write it out the other way around).
A bunch of other countries don't write any symbol at all, only the number. Some, like Indonesia, also have an implied thousands (000) at the end, since their base currency unit is very small. So you may see "8" but it means "8000 IDR."
Re:Why Is the Dollar Sign a Letter S?
by FreeFull on Sunday February 08, 2015 @10:24PM
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For another example of a currency where the symbol does go on the right end, there is the Polish currency (złoty). For example, "5,99 zł" (although often the zł will be skipped)
Malaysians write theirs like "RM8"; RM being their local currency symbol despite the ISO one being MYR (this happens because ISO puts the country first but many countries would write it out the other way around).
A bunch of other countries don't write any symbol at all, only the number. Some, like Indonesia, also have an implied thousands (000) at the end, since their base currency unit is very small. So you may see "8" but it means "8000 IDR."