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Mandy Nelson · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:25 pm Post subject: Rush help if you can!

how doya say: $0.0036 cents

I want to say zero zero three six cents but perhaps it should be point zero zero three six cents? I'm trying to get this out the door ASAP and they've given me a ton of flexibility but this would just be a stupidity thing if I say it wrong. Thought I'd turn to those I trust (and I'm not afraid to look stupid in front of).
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bobsouer · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:29 pm Post subject:

Mandy,

I think I would say "thirty-six thousanths of a cent."
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Mandy Nelson · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:34 pm Post subject:

ooohhh, I like that!! Thank, Bob. Kiss

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Mandy Nelson · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:52 pm Post subject:

Bob, again, thanks. That's what I went with and they've already fallen in love. Sigh, guess I'll cut you a check for thirty-six thousanths of a cent, or would rather that came through paypal? Inoccent

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bobsouer · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 7:39 pm Post subject:

Mandy,

You're welcome and the advice if free! (Not to mention the PayPal fees would be way more than 36/1000ths of the cent.)
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Lee Gordon · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 1:09 am Post subject:

Either the dollar sign or the word "cents" is superfluous. They can't both be there because they contradict each other.
With the dollar sign only, I would read it "point 36 cents." With the word "cents" only, I would read it as Bob suggests, "36 thousanths of a cent" or "36 thousanths cent." The two amounts differ by a factor of 100 and you need to find out which one the client intended it to be,
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Eddie Eagle · M&M Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 2393

3 point 6 hundreth cents

CarynClark · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 11:08 am Post subject:

teeninsy amount
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Bruce · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 11:28 am Post subject:

"Just over a third of a cent" if you're paying attention to $ sign.

If it's 0.0036 cents then it's "one Abe Lincoln's beard worth of a penny", to coin a phrase.

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Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 3:14 pm Post subject:

is this p2p related by chance?
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Mandy Nelson · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:43 pm Post subject:

No. Has it come up elsewhere? I don't think this client went P2P but who knows? I'm not on any P2Ps now.
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Peter Katt · Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 10:00 pm Post subject:

Isn't 0.0036 equal to 36-ten-thousandths, not 36-thousandths? (See http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/57113.html)

0.36 = 36 hundredths
0.036 = 36 thousandths
0.0036 = 36 ten-thousandths

As Lee mentioned, there's confusion involving the use of both the dollar sign and the word "cents." I guess it's the financial version of the greengrocer's apostrophe. Usually when I see something like "$0.10 cents" they mean 10 cents. In that case, $0.0036 in cents would be 0.36 cents, or "36-hundredths of a cent," which I think would be the most audibly comprehensible way to say it.

If in fact the dollar sign is what doesn't belong, it should be "36-ten-thousandths of a cent."
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Deirdre · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:44 am Post subject:

Whatever it is, it aint much.
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Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:53 pm Post subject:

Mandy Nelson · Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:56 pm Post subject:

HA! I shoulda seen it coming, I tell ya.
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