And yes you have to spend it all

Edit: There are a lot of little good things in these answers that I often ignore. Thanks everyone.

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    6 months ago

    Buy an internet ad that tells people the damn dollar sign goes BEFORE the number.

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      6 months ago

      It is funny to see comments like these trying to find creative ways of being pedantic lol

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      Not in Europe. We put our currency behind the number and our decimal is a “,” instead of a “.”
      Instead we divide thousands by empty spaces or “.” (at least in Germany).

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        Yes, but this is specifically a dollar sign, and in every country that uses dollars, the $ goes before the number.

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            6 months ago

            More accurately, in English the currency type precedes the number, regardless of what currency it is.

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        And then there’s whatever they do in India, where a comma indicates the thousands place, but then they put commas every two numbers…

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        Why is your decimal a comma and the separator a full stop? A comma continues a thought just like it continues a number, and a full stop (period) separates sentences, much like it separates a whole and fractional part of a number. Your system is ass-backwards and you fucking know it. You should be ashamed of it.

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      But which is ‘before’ the number? We use arabic numbers so they’re actually reversed…