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you've got me, I don't know what C° is, I only know °C
Now that you pointed it out, this annoys me more than people who put the currency sign after the amount.
Welcome to Europa were we do exactly that, as the placement of the currency symbol is a locale thing not a universal.
Sure, but that doesn't stop the localities that put it after from being totally wrong and stupid.
but you say "its 15 US Dollar", and not "its US Dollar 15"? Same with any other unit (which a currency is) "x m, y seconds, z newton"
Speaking things and reading things aren't 1 to 1 the same.
but they should be similar at least
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
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"
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
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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Listen do you say Dollars 300 ($300) or do you say 300 Dollars (300$)?
I rest my case lol
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)
Probably OOPs engagement bait, it gets me every time I see this meme 😭
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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".
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?
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.
I'm pretty sure you've made this up. °C is the unit regardless
How would you "say" this, "Five Celcius degrees more..."?
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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