30 dollars and sixty cents

[Pink_Flower]

Hello,
I would like you to check whenever I made mistakes:

30.60 -> thirty dollars and sixty cents
30.6 -> thirty dollars and six cents
30.06 -> how should I read this?



Thank you.

 

[GoesStation]

$30.60 -> "thirty dollars and sixty cents" :tick:
$30.6 -> "thirty dollars and six cents" :cross: [Use either no decimals or at least two when writing dollar amounts.]
$30.06 -> how should I read this?

"Thirty dollars and six cents". Although it's possible to read "$30.6" as thirty point six dollars, It's very rare to write a dollar amount with a single decimal.

 

[Pink_Flower]

"Thirty dollars and six cents". Although it's possible to read "$30.6" as thirty point six dollars, It's very rare to write a dollar amount with a single decimal.

So we have either "$30.60" thirty point sixty dollars or "$30.06" thirty point six dollars. And "$30.6" is invalid. Right?

Also, those numbers after point "." are cents, right? The first one is 60 cents and the second one is 6 cents. Right?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

So we have either "$30.60" thirty point six dollars or "$30.06" thirty point oh six dollars. And "$30.6" is invalid. Right?

Not exactly. Point six means six tenths. Point oh six means six one hundredths. (See the corrections.)

I think you know this, but we would never say "point" when naming a price. We'd say "thirty sixty" and "thirty oh six."

Also, those numbers after the decimal point "." are cents, right? The first one is 60 cents and the second one is 6 cents. Right?

Yes and yes.

Does that make sense? (I know it makes cents.)

 

[GoesStation]

Also, those numbers after point "." are cents, right? The first one is 60 cents and the second one is 6 cents. Right?

NO! They are decimal parts of a dollar. $30.6 would mean thirty dollars and sixty cents. The risk of confusion is the reason we don't write dollar figures that way.

In the United States, gasoline ("petrol" in British English) is priced in dollars, cents, and mils per gallon. (Although it's an official subunit of the dollar, few Americans know that a tenth of a cent is called a "mil".) The price has plummeted in the last few days; I saw a gas station advertising regular unleaded for $1.179 /gallon on Wednesday. That's displayed as "$1.17 9/10".

 

[emsr2d2]

In the last few years, I've noticed that some restaurants (in an attempt to be "cool"), have taken to removing the "£" sign and the final digit from the prices on the menu. A menu might look like this:

Avocado on sourdough: 3.6
Salmon with watercress puree: 4.8
Sirloin steak with dauphinoise potatoes: 12.9

(I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person who thinks it looks ridiculous!)

 

[jutfrank]

It looks like they're giving their food a rating.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

In the last few years, I've noticed that some restaurants (in an attempt to be "cool"), have taken to removing the "£" sign and the final digit from the prices on the menu. A menu might look like this:

Avocado on sourdough: 3.6
Salmon with watercress puree: 4.8
Sirloin steak with dauphinoise potatoes: 12.9

(I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person who thinks it looks ridiculous!)

Not in the US of pea-pickin', God-fearin' A it won't!

 

[GoesStation]

In the last few years, I've noticed that some restaurants (in an attempt to be "cool"), have taken to removing the "£" sign and the final digit from the prices on the menu. A menu might look like this:

Avocado on sourdough: 3.6
Salmon with watercress puree: 4.8
Sirloin steak with dauphinoise potatoes: 12.9

(I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person who thinks it looks ridiculous!)

I've seen that at a few restaurants, too, in Los Angeles and maybe in Paris.

 

[bubbha]

I've never seen single-decimal prices. I've seen plenty of restaurants showing their prices in dollar amounts without the cents:

Pan-seared salmon 18
Walnut-encrusted halibut 17
Pork chops 13

To me it's a sign that the restaurant is too pricey and pretentious.

 

[emsr2d2]

Yes, they do that here too. I'm not sure why I didn't include one of those in my example. ;-)