Let's test our comprehension. Is "point five nine cents" the same as "fifty-nine cents"?
It sounds like you're saying it is, because cents always have .s in front of them. But I find it hard to believe that people would claim that 0.59 cents = 59 cents.
Then again, I still find the original conversation difficult to understand, and the Diet Coke sympathetic magic still blows my mind.
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Date: 2006-12-14 01:25 am (UTC)It sounds like you're saying it is, because cents always have .s in front of them. But I find it hard to believe that people would claim that 0.59 cents = 59 cents.
Then again, I still find the original conversation difficult to understand, and the Diet Coke sympathetic magic still blows my mind.
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Date: 2006-12-14 02:19 pm (UTC)(So point five cents is *not* the same as half a cent, for example.)
I'm trying to think of another example where the "units" come before the number, but haven't thought of one yet.