--On 3. februar 2003 21:07 -0800 Aaron Falk <falk(_at_)isi(_dot_)edu> wrote:
Well done, Harald! I applaud this move towards 'transparency.'
One question. In the sentence on the finance page where you wrote:
"In the US, this is one way in which hotels recover the cost of
meeting rooms; in one recent query, the secretariat got a quote on
meeting rooms without food for USD 238.000 (at 50% off list
price). At a similar meeting where we got the meeting rooms for
free, our food and beverages bill was approximately USD 250.000."
I'm a little confused as to whether the decimal has been substituted
for a comma or whether it's just in the wrong place or both.
It's just my Norwegian decimals.... both numbers are in the ballpark of a
quarter million dollars.
(Norwegian, and many European languages, use comma to separate units and
fractions, and the dot to separate thousands. Sometimes quite confusing....)
Harald