Le 06-10-12 à 23:18, Scott Reynen a écrit :
<span class="money"><abbr class="amount" title="0.99">99</abbr><abbr
class="currency" title="USD">¢</abbr></span>
This is the sort of absurdity that the credit card advertisers
engage in.
I'm not sure what this means. Do you not think 99¢ means
fundamentally the same thing as 0.99USD?
What you see is 99 and what you get is less than 1.
That's only true if you consider the value outside the context of
the currency, and I don't know why anyone would do that. "99" is a
meaningless monetary value without a currency assigned. If the
currency is going to be optional, I think it at least needs to be
implied. Otherwise we just have a number with no idea what it
means. And if there's an established currency, then why not use
the unit already explicitly defined by that currency's ISO 4217
code? Why throw away the "D" in "USD"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217
"The first two letters of the code are the two letters of ISO 3166-1
alpha-2 country codes"
There are also issues in the way you divide numbers. In many
countries, number are organized by sequence of 3 digits. For example,
in Japan
10 yen = ju(10) yen
1000 yen = ichi(1) sen yen
but 10000 yen = ichi(1) man yen (and not ju sen yen)
10000 万 man
1000 千 sen
wa-on kan-on mandarin
1 一 hito ichi yi
2 二 futa ni ar, liang *
3 三 mi san san
4 四 yon shi * si
5 五 itsutsu go wu
6 六 mu roku liu
7 七 nana shichi * qi
8 八 ya hachi ba
9 九 kokonotsu kyuu jiu
10 十 tou jyuu shi
And this is actually used in daily life, in case people think its a
corner case.
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