At 06:02 PM 12/16/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Lucky Pittman wrote:
> > When I read "US .05 cents per day per head", that means 5/100ths
> > of a cent
> > per head per day to me - is that correct, or did you mean 5
> > cents/head/day?
>
>5 cents per day would have been a better expression. I don't have the cents
>character on the keyboard (without finding the higher ASCII character set)
>so I spell out the word as "cents."
Yeah, I couldn't figure out how to do the cents character, either.
>Perhaps it would have been better to have shown it as US$.05.
Yep. Decimal places can be very important.
I killed a bitch with eclampsia(milk fever) one time because I was off by
one decimal place when I (erroneously) figured out the dilution factor for
the calcium solution I was giving intravenously.
Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY
