Hans Cummings on Nostr: Oy... the number of people I've had to explain to lately that numbers and dates take ...
Oy... the number of people I've had to explain to lately that numbers and dates take more words to speak than GoogleDocs counts when they're typed out numerically is... more than I'd like.
You can type $1153.67 and GoogleDocs will say it's two words. But when you say it aloud, it's eleven words (one thousand, one hundred fifty-three dollars and sixty-seven cents).
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