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Originally Posted by Lampwick
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nobody is ever sure. how could they be?
It’s because we are saddled with a
dumbass, crypto cloak & dagger, bullshit coded system
that makes no sense but people refuse to let go of it
The purpose of it is…
well, I can not think of 1 good reason
Maybe some enjoy the constant back & forth…
“what did that actually mean?”
“you paid a dollar twenty?”
“you paid 12 hundred dollars?”
because the code makes no sense,
there are many ways to interpret it
It is almost certain to be misunderstood by at least some
I keep trying to get people to
lose the decimal point, lose the dollar sign
just write down the number,
as in, 120 means 120
but my simple suggestion does not seem to catch on
maybe we will someday evolve
past this stupid code
but I am not holding my breath