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r

 

I have no clue what is supposed to be funny here, so all I'll say is that you left the dollar sign out of the little red '1.2 trillion of energy' quote.

 

I have an IQ of 136, but I seriously can't think of a way in which this could be funny. Hmm, perhaps my sense of humour is slightly retarded.

 

r

 

I think you miss the point here. Energy does cost money however. Look at this here:

$1.2 trillion of energy = 1.2 trillion dollars of energy.

 

Question, do you know what the following sign means?

$

The quote was "If we do nothing, we will waste $1.2 trillion of energy", or, as it would be spoken, "If we do nothing, we will waste one point two trillion dollars of energy". The dollar sign goes before the number, but when spoken it comes afterwards.

 

r

 

By the way, you CAN divide energy into units. They are called megawatts. (when talking about production from a powerplant)

 

yr

 

@ exe. You obviously didn't overlook it, as you actively removed it from your quote in red. Also saying one point two trillion dollars of energy is a lot more natural and far more common than saying the energy equivalent of one point two trillion dollars.

@ Aurora. The base unit is actually just the watt.

 

r

 

Well, pure and simple, that is unquestionably the most common way of phrasing such a statement. And if you did overlook it, why did you physically edit the dollar sign out? I could understand it if you were reading it, or quoted the whole thing, but you consciously deleted it from your quote.

And the dollar sign should always come before the number, or at least, that's the way it is with English.

 

r

 

That's set out in a different format. They're abbreviating the word format, which is different to using the sign, which can be used as both a symbol or simple abbreviation. I'd also like to point out that your quoted example there goes against what you were saying. With both euros and American dollars, they're both in front of the number.

All up, you won't, or at least you shouldn't, see anything written as 100$ or 100€, and regardless, you still consciously deleted the dollar sign from your red quote.

EDIT: Nice job editing out that quote. Regardless, you can still see that both examples, both euros and dollars, were indeed in front of the number. And seriously, dude, by editing that out, you're only kidding yourself.

 

r

 

I know, but nobody uses that when it comes to large numbers like these. A bit like food packages that use kilojoules instead of joules. As for using money to make clear how much energy it was: people understand money. The average person doesn't care about how much units of energy (no matter how you say it) are wasted. It's all about the money. :/

 

You're kidding yourself because you're consciously ignoring any evidence that suggests you're wrong. Regardless of whether you edited it out or not, if you can clearly see that what you're saying is not correct but choose to believe it anyway, then you're kidding yourself.

USD is an abbreviation, just as EUR is. USD stands for United States dollar, and EUR is short for euro. As such, they can simply be in place of the word, in which they'd most likely come afterwards, or they can be used as a symbol in themselves, where they would come before. I don't know which is more prevalent off the top of my head.

 

We (people from Europe) always put the € symbol in front of the numbers. Usually like this: €10,- or €10,00. Never 10 euros. That just sucks. (even though you say it like that)

 

Well when unabbreviated, it would be just as you put it, wouldn't it? As 'ten euros'? As I said earlier, the symbol is always before, but without it, it should be just as it's spoken. €10 is ten euros, as $10 is ten dollars. Right?

 

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