NOTE: The $64,000 Question was a television show in the US in the late 1950s. I hope you are convinced: These days it is unnecessary and downright silly to render a number two (2) different ways. And in the modern age, with the widespread use of carbon paper, numbers written in words were easier to decipher on carbon copies. Then why do so many people write numbers in words and figures? According to Garner, the use of "doublets" came about centuries ago to prevent number altering. discrepancies aren’t possible unless you write it twice." One argument often given for the doubled numbers is that they prevent discrepancies. "For purposes of this Agreement, the current fair market value of the Property is $389.667." He replaces that bloated sentence with this concise wording: "The parties have agreed that for purposes of this Agreement, the current fair market value of the Property is Three Hundred Eighty-Nine Thousand Six Hundred Sixty-Seven and 00/100 dollars ($389.667.00)." He provides this example of what not to do: "There’s no good reason why modern briefs, judicial opinions, statutes, or contracts should contain doublets." In his book Legal Writing in Plain English: A Text With Exercises, Garner (who refers to the redundant numbers as "word-numeral doublets") states:
Garner, editor of Black’s Law Dictionary. To encourage you to stop, I cite expert Bryan A. You may be hesitant to stop writing numbers in both figures and words in your contracts.
We don’t need to restate a number in a typed business letter, memo, email, report, or even a contract.
On a check, we include a spelled out version of the amount to reduce the likelihood that anyone will misread the number or alter it. What I am saying is that the process it is designed to carry out has been of benefit to me, even if I didn't use this app to carry out that process.Here is the sixty-four thousand dollar ($64,000) question: Why do we repeat numbers?įourteen dollars and seven cents ($14.07)Īnswer: Because we have always done it that way!ĭespite how we have always done it, there is only ONE situation in which it makes sense to render a number in both words and figures: when writing a check. That's not to say, however, that others might well find this app beneficial, in terms of time savings, or just because they're not 100% sure of what they're doing otherwise. Why? Who knows? Who cares? It now uses less memory and starts faster.ĭownside for this developer is that I did this using Get Info and clicking "Run in 32-bit mode" for those apps that offered the option – took me all of a few minutes – so I'm not going to part with my cash. Photoshop CS5 is much snappier on the startup in 32-bit mode. Other than that, not much to report about performance, one way or the other, except … Memory usage has been lowered significantly. I then went and changed those of my most frequently used apps to 32-bit mode, just to see what happened. That tended to back up the developer's suggestions that running apps in 64-bit mode did use extra memory. I read through much of the feedback on this app with interest, and then did a bit of research.
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