2002-09-01 Could be, but we never write "c$", we use �. What is also funny is in the US, a "quarter can be written as either $ 0.25 (sometimes $ .25) or 25 �. In one case the symbol precedes, and in the other, it follows.
Does anyone in Euroland use or say centieuros or just cents? Maybe the Germans still call the centieuro a pfennig, no? What about writing it out? Is it always 0.25 ? or maybe 25 c?? How is it done? john ----- Original Message ----- From: "Markus Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2002-09-01 09:00 Subject: [USMA:21996] RE: Spanish dollar > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 2002-09-01 03:04 UTC: > > Depending on the subtleties of definition, the US currency is not truly > > decimal. It has two base units, cent and dollar, just like many > > currencies. > > Didn't "cent" merely evolve as a short form for the word centidollar > and now also centieuro? So one base unit only ... > > Markus > > -- > Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK > Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> >
