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Every person who has ever written a check ever. I haven't written a check in many years though, so I can understand how you aren't familiar
In the USA maybe
It's been a long time since I've written a cheque, but it was always decimals in the UK
I wonder how you guys wrote checks before the decimalization.
I guess we probably used the old English currency notation, like 10/6d and £1/3/2, but that was long before I was writing cheques.
Interesting thing with the long form part, we would always do "one hundred and forty five pounds twenty two pence only" the only being used as the sort of end marker to mitigate changes
I've seen a lot of checks in my life, and I've only seen the fraction used in the full written out line on the bottom, never in the top right box.
And why is the area code of Apple’s phone number in single quotes?