Comment on Carenheit

arctanthrope@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A cegree dee

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• Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Now that you pointed it out, this annoys me more than people who put the currency sign after the amount.

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Welcome to Europa were we do exactly that, as the placement of the currency symbol is a locale thing not a universal.

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    • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah I know, it drives me crazy.

      It’s also annoying when Europeans swap the comma and decimal on currency amounts too, especially given that you don’t do that when writing sentences. Drives me crazy seeing an amount written out like 2.999,95€! Where are your manners!?

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      • atro_city@fedia.io ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        USAian defaultism is always hilarious

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      • Demdaru@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Where I live we…just use comma. So 2999,95. No reason to add useless separators in the middle, and if we do for clarity sake, we use space (2 999,95).

        This is gonna irk you further, isn’t it…? xD

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      • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        manners? Where is your freedom, as you took that notation (0,000,00) from your british overlords.

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      • expr@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        “It’s so infuriating when people communicate in ways I’m not used to!”

        Just sounds really dumb and backwards.

        According to ISO 80000-1, the decimal separator can either be a period or a comma, and no preference is given to either. Many American software systems support both (including the software I work on). It’s really quite normal and mundane.

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      • syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        People who deviate from the rule that units go after the number drive me batty.

        Like what, is the US equivalent of X €/kWh written $ X / kWh or something??? Absolutely disgusting

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      • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Wait until they discovers that were i live we use those:

        • 2.000.000,34
        • 2’000’000,34
        • 2 000 000,34

        And that what you use depends on who your teacher was XD

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sure, but that doesn’t stop the localities that put it after from being totally wrong and stupid.

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      • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        but you say “its 15 US Dollar”, and not “its US Dollar 15”?

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  • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To me putting it first feels funny. Euro 100, instead of 100 euros. While writing it you need to remember to put the symbol before writing the amount. Funny thing

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I dont know why that annoys me. It does annoy me but it shouldn’t because at least it has a logic to it.

    £2 Is spoken “two pounds” not “pound two”

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    • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is because with it being before, you get to know that the number is for a currency immediately, instead of finding out it’s a currency afterwards

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      • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes, I too deal with amounts of money large enough that I can’t see the end when I start reading it!

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  • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Listen do you say Dollars 300 ($300) or do you say 300 Dollars (300$)?

    I rest my case lol

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    • forkDestroyer@infosec.pub ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ll give you my 2¢ on this: I like the dollar sign before the number. When I say “3 dollars” I see it as “$3” not “3$” and I don’t see it as “dollars 3” unless I’m telling a riddle.

      Just like with American date structure: I’ll say July 26, 2026 and will see it as 07/26/2026.

      (But when I put a date in files I go for YYYY/MM/DD format)

      (Whoever created these systems had a funny sense of synergy lol)

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• HamsterRage@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Technically, I think that C° is used to express differences or ranges of temperatures. For instance the difference between 15 °C and 20 °C is 5 C°. Or you could say something like, “5 C° more is all it takes for me to start wearing shorts”.

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  • arctanthrope@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I feel like that would have come up at some point during my two years of thermodynamics classes where we were constantly using ∆T. just did a search for “C°” in quotes, and for delta T; first one returned nothing, second showed a bunch of sources where the units of ∆T were °C. any idea where you might have heard this?

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    • HamsterRage@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m old. Google tells me that “Celcius degrees” used to be used for differences or ranges, but modern standards just use “degrees celcius” for everything. My experience would come from thermodynamics classes in the 1980’s.

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  • elDalvini@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve always seen Kelvin used to describe differences in temperature, since Kelvin has a real zero point and the steps are the same as Celsius. Or people just use °C because they don’t know or care that it’s technically wrong.

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  • forkDestroyer@infosec.pub ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I reject your reality and substitute my own.

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