Dollar sign placement matters
$100$
Use them like quotes to cover all your bases.
Like spanish question marks, it’s good that you put the first $ upside down.
¡Exactamente!
$00100$
Bases covered
Bases? Is that in binary?
By putting the dollar sign first on checks it prevents someone from changing 100$ into 1100$
You could do the same if the dollar sign is on the other side though.
$100
$1000
But that’s why you put the “and no cents ~~~~~~~~” at the end
You could do a similar thing for the other style:
100$
Vs
-------- 100$
I would write it $100, but only because it’s convention, either method has the same issue and solutions.
That’s the text portion, not the numeric portion.
Oh, I still do the $100.°/oo~~~~ in the numeric section too.
I see. I assumed you meant the words because you put the words in your comment.
Seems like a good idea to do both, as you say.
I don’t really write a lot of checks any more.
I had to write a check a few months ago, it was like divining an ancient language.
It cleared through, so I guess I got it right.
1000
Pretty sure the printing out of the amount with letters prevents that.
One hundred dollars -------xx/00
Just like commas.
Let’s eat out Grandma!
Proper use of grouping separators (commas in some locales, dots/periods/full-stops in others, although there are some standards that specify spaces instead - which I personally find problematic) might’ve helped clear up the orientation issue as well.
l10n is a bitch. The exceptions are almost as bad as timezones…
The swiss use ’ as a separator. So they would write 900’000 which upside down would look like 000,006 so the confusion could continue
