Re: Types of numerals
| From: | caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 5, 2006, 12:22 |
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--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@M...>
wrote:
>Most fonts have only a single line in $ here as well, actually,
>despite the popularity of the "U superimposed on S" theory of the
>symbol's origin.
In my experience, I hardly ever see the double-slash version here in
the U.S.
>The ¢ symbol exists on some keyboards (and is easy enough to type
>on e.g. the US Mac keyboard layout as alt-4). It didn't make the
>cut for US-ASCII, but it is in EBCDIC and several mostly-ASCII-
>compatible variant character sets from pre-Latin-1 days.
Just checking to see what Alt-155 will produce on the list message:
¢. It appears correctly on the edit screen and on the preview
screen.
>I have often seen things like 0.87¢ on signs where $0.87 is
>meant. I've yet to persuade a shopkeeper to give me the price as
>written, sadly. :)
I've seen that often as well.
>There are recurring mumbles over here about abolishing the penny and
>rounding everything to the nearest nickel ($0.05)...
With our luck they'll always round up!! The U.S. is no longer
printing the $2 bill. There was one in the collection plate a few
weeks ago that I took for a souvenir. Yes, I put two $1's in for
it!! :-)>
>"virgule".
IMO it's a shame so many call it a "slash"! The "\" (popularly
known as a backslash) has a proper name, too, but I can't think of
it. Dictionaries ought to have entries such as:
(under "virgule) "BTW, the _\_ is called a _____."
Charlie
http://wiki.frath.net/user:caeruleancentaur
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