symbols - What is the difference between 20$ and $20? - English ...
"The dollar sign ($), originally called the peso sign, is a symbol primarily used to indicate the various peso and dollar units of currency around the world". There is nothing in its definition stipulating its relative position as well as it is only for dollar. Also, it is not clear that $ denotes dollar but not some other non-dollar currency sign
Should it be 10 US$ or US$ 10? - English Language & Usage Stack …
May 21, 2011 · If you're going to use a symbol rather than spell out the currency's name, you should always put the currency symbol directly to the left of the digits: "$10" and never "10 $".
punctuation - Why is the unit of measure placed before the value …
With dollar sign in front of the amount and decimal point in the proper place (either in the form of ".00" or ".-") it is much harder to forge the amount. The same reason justifies the thousand separator (as it splits the groups of digits in three so even changes from $1,252,001.- to $1,2152,001.- are easily detectable), but here readability ...
numbers - What are the correct abbreviations for millions, billions …
I've found answers on the web but also got conflicting answers from financial professionals (coworkers). In metric, you'd use M (mega) for million, G (giga) for billion and T (tera) for trillion. The
What is the correct way to write a range of dollar figures?
Aug 15, 2011 · What is the best way to express the range from $4.5 billion to $5.2 billion? Is the following correct? ... between $4.5 and $5.2 billion ...
Mixing use of K for thousands and MM for millions
Jul 3, 2014 · I worked in banking for 27 years (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Bank of America), and my experience in financial services was that M and MM were consistently used for thousands and millions, respectively.
Why must the cent sign come after the value? [duplicate]
Feb 9, 2015 · Writing the sign of the currency before the amount was and still is bank usage as it is important to see at once the currency. With amounts below one unit there was no need to change the normal order of amount + unit just as it is spoken. Why the bank usage was adopted by newspapers is another question.
numbers - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
The alternative to what you posted would be: "The national debt just hit 14.6 trillion dollars," said Jack, "yet you complain about my 2 million dollar fee and 5 thousand dollar airline tickets?"
Is the "an" rule applied when a sum of money is in between?
More significantly, though, the image has other errors. In addition to the wrong article being used, the dollar sign should go before the number, not after (it should be $100,000, not 100,000 $). Also, I think "five million dollar bridge" would be better than "5 million dollar bridge."
word choice - What is the name of the symbols - and ">"?
Jun 27, 2015 · +1, I like that this is the first answer to address the multiple Unicode code points involved. However, I think you might mention that regardless of the characters' names or official prescriptions for use, the less-than and greater-than signs are commonly used as a type of brackets, probably because they can easily be typed and their display is more widely …