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Montréal Transit Developments
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nfitz
Superstar
$1.5B not G!
p_xavier
Active Member
I stand by my gigadollar. We had this debate years ago.
nfitz
Superstar
If you want to guarantee that no one understands you, rather than just some, why not switch to Kenyan Shillings?
The decimal comma doesn't help either - few know what that is, outside Quebec. Especially since Canada's switched back to officially using a comma as a thousands separator!
It certainly isn't the local usage - and this is a local forum.
drum118
Superstar
You can standby your 1,5G$ all you want, but 99.9999% of the population and 100% of this board will not... Wait make that 99.9999% since you do and maybe someone else does
ARG1
Senior Member
Don't worry, I shall accept your use of the gigadollar.
... what were we talking about again?
Deadpool X
Senior Member
Just curious if you also call a million dollars a megadollar, and a thousand dollars a kilodollar.
SashaLemon
Active Member
Well we got it right for at least one factor...
Mind_the_gap
Active Member
Let them hold on to that mainland European affiliation. If Anglophone Canadians can’t understand, that’s their problem. Quite frankly I’m surprised Quebec didn’t adopt the Vienna Convention on Road Signs like Saint Pierre and Miquelon, when it mattered.
How many Canadians know this symbol ” ﬩ ” is used in certain religious schools in Canada in mathematics, in lieu of using a traditional ” + ” (plus) sign. Source
W. K. Lis
Superstar
Speed limits signs in Mexico use the RED circle around the number. Canada should as well.
St-Pierre & Miquelon is a French territory. In these islands, road signs are the same as in France, even if we are in North America, about 30 kilometers from Newfoundland ! |
At least there are no roads on the Hans Island shared between Canada and Denmark.
See link.
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SashaLemon
Active Member
Speed limits signs in Mexico use the RED circle around the number. Canada should as well.
In these islands, road signs are the same as in France, even if we are
in North America, about 30 kilometers from Newfoundland !
From link.
At least there are no roads on the Hans Island shared between Canada and Denmark.
See link.
Yet...
p_xavier
Active Member
In writing, k$, M$, G$ are of standard usage yes.
DirectionNorth
Active Member
You are posting on Urban Toronto, not Agora Montreal. Feel free to post whatever you like, but don't be surprised when people ask what something means.
lrt's friend
Active Member
Not in North America, which is where we live.
nfitz
Superstar
In FORTRAN perhaps. Where the first two integers.