What’s the argument for having it before the number?
I actually kind of like it written that way because it follows the standard for other units. It should be quantity and then unit. 50 m. 0°C. 50%. 2:00 PM.
You yourself recognize that that’s the way we say it, and even write it out long form. 50 dollars.
Sure, historically, $50 has been the correct way to write it, but language changes. Why not make a change that makes English more consistent?
I will cocede PM is not a unit, but % is at least an honoray unit of measurement based on how it’s used [1].
Time is weird. A duration has a unit associated with it, seconds, minutes, hours, but an absolute time doesn’t. That is unless we’re using an epoch. I could say today started at 1788652800 seconds if we’re using unix epoch.
I guess that’s because time is a coordinate system. 2 PM is designating a specific point in that coordinate system. There’s no origin (unless epoch specified), so we can’t have an absolute measurement, so we don’t have units associated with it. PM just feels similar to a unit because it is part of a coordinate system.
What’s the argument for having it before the number?
I actually kind of like it written that way because it follows the standard for other units. It should be quantity and then unit. 50 m. 0°C. 50%. 2:00 PM.
You yourself recognize that that’s the way we say it, and even write it out long form. 50 dollars.
Sure, historically, $50 has been the correct way to write it, but language changes. Why not make a change that makes English more consistent?
Some places like it both ways. In Japan if you write ¥100 it goes before, but if you use the other local symbol it goes after, as in 100円.
I take issue with the claim that % and PM are units.
I will cocede PM is not a unit, but % is at least an honoray unit of measurement based on how it’s used [1].
Time is weird. A duration has a unit associated with it, seconds, minutes, hours, but an absolute time doesn’t. That is unless we’re using an epoch. I could say today started at 1788652800 seconds if we’re using unix epoch.
I guess that’s because time is a coordinate system. 2 PM is designating a specific point in that coordinate system. There’s no origin (unless epoch specified), so we can’t have an absolute measurement, so we don’t have units associated with it. PM just feels similar to a unit because it is part of a coordinate system.
The other poster is likely from the US. Nothing is consistent in the US.
Because as soon as you see $50, you know it’s money. With 50$ you have to read the fifty and then figure out what it is 50 of.
You can disagree with that, as your comment already does, I’m just answering the why.
So it’s in50 because otherwise you have to figure out that the 50 is 50 inch?
Edit: typo
Looks at the dollar sign