> > Even though it's all the same $0.10/liter
> chemicals, with varying amounts of
> > perfume and marketing hype.
> >
> Dear Nat and All,
>
> Wouldn't it be better to write this as 0.10 $/L
> rather than $0.10/liter.
>
> My suggestion is based on:
>
> + The symbol '$' is a well known and accepted unit
> symbol for the quantity
> 'money'.
>
> + The symbol '$' has no special features, as a
> unit symbol, that mean it
> should be placed before its numerical value - except
> perhaps on a cheque or
> in a contract - and neither of these occasions apply
> here.
>
> + The symbol '$' can be very useful (and save a
> lot of confusion and ink)
> when it is used for large sums of money, for example
> 2 M$ is a lot shorter
> and simpler than $2mill or any other randomly
> generated abbreviation.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pat Naughtin CAMS
> Geelong, Australia
>
While the SI is internationally accepted, it
never deals with currencies. ICU LocaleExplorer at
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/localeexplorer/
shows variations of not only currency symbols, but
also many other items such as date, time, decimal
points, and so on.
In response to "megadollars" (M$, 10^6 $), how
about kilodollars, (k$), gigadollars (G$, 10^9 $,
called "billion" dollars in the US) and teradollars
(T$, 10^12 $, called "trillion" dollars in the US)?
I consider writing symbols of money to the right
of numbers more logical, but it is not done all over.
ISO 4217 has standardized 3-letter currency symbols,
and can be found at
http://www.bsi-global.com/Technical+Information/04_Publications+Catalogue_Publications/_Publications/tig90.xhtml
. I wonder if it is feasible to attach SI prefixes to
ISO 4217 symbols such as kUSD, MUSD, GUSD, TUSD, and
the like.
I use US keyboard, so $ is available, but "local"
symbols of GBP, EUR, JPY, and so on have to be typed
specially, and I would not want to bother looking for
their codes to type in. I would just use ISO 4217 if
special "local" symbols are not readily available. I
would prefer 300 USD, 5000 TWD, 50 CNY, 500 CAD, 400
GBP, 10000 JPY, and so on.
Regards,
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