• TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s a convention for writing checks. If the dollar amount on a check read “300.00$” there’s nothing stopping me from writing “1300.00$” on there. But if you put “$300.00” that number is enclosed on both sides and there is no chance of being able to modify it (without significantly more effort that can be much more easily noticed)

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      2 months ago

      Do it like $1300.00$ to fuck with LaTeX/Markdown renderers