Pat Naughtin wrote in USMA 10108 ... >> 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 $2mill or any other randomly generated abbreviation. In the Province of Quebec it is common practice when writing French to use the comma as the decimal marker and to place the dollar sign after the numerical value. At least that is the practice of le Gouvernement du Qu�bec and l'Universit� du Qu�bec. It is 21 years since I left Quebec, so I don't know how widespread these practices are. Also I don't know if M$ is commonly used for megadollars.
