See if you can find the $ symbol in less than 30 seconds.
Let us know how long it took you.
But, don't tell anyone where it is!
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See if you can find the $ symbol in less than 30 seconds.
Let us know how long it took you.
But, don't tell anyone where it is!
Yes found it ... took about 10-15 seconds to check.
Regards
Su
took me about the same time including checking and being Mr Pedant I found two.....:-O:D
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Originally Posted by handrawn
NO. You can't count the blue one!
ah - so the file name won't count either... darn... ;))
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Originally Posted by handrawn
I hadn't thought of that, Steve!
Only took me 20 minutes and a magnifying glass! In my (and my old weary eyes) defence the $ is more an S with very slight lines. I even thought it may be that members using $ currencies could find it quicker as they were more aquainted with the symbol but we're all from the UK here apart from Su so this doesn't hold water.
...Well I found Steve's 2nd one quite quickly.. It was finding the first I had a bit of trouble with, but then I always struggle finding the dollars.. :(
Well, Egg.
No defence is required. It takes as long as it takes.
It's a bit of fun.
Steve: You should have no problems finding dollars in Australia!
Am I right, that there is no symbol for the Australian Dollar?
It took me forever to find it and I'm still not convinced that I did. For a long time I thought it might be a trick question and the $ was the blue one. Finally I found one that slightly resembled a $ more than did an S with serifs. So in light of this I am forwarding my eye doctor bill to Mr. Whatshisname.
Ok ... I thought it was a trick question too and that it was the blue one, I then just quickly checked the rest to see if there was another and didn't find one. So scratch my original time. I did find the other one once I realised this, but it took way longer than 30 seconds. You would think I'd be used to seeing the dollar sign by now.
Rik: I hadn't noticed a lack of $ symbols in Australia for the dollar. AFAIK it's the same as for here, in New Zealand, and of course the US. Although you do see them written as AUS$ (plus variations of) and NZ$ as well sometimes. Unless I've misunderstood your question.
Regards
Su
That makes me feel a little better Su. Thanks
The symbol for the Australian dollar is $Quote:
Originally Posted by Rik
But I mean't I have trouble finding the dollars (to pay the bills) ;)
I don't have any Australian notes, but when I looked on-line, I couldn't find any with any $ symbols on the notes.Quote:
Originally Posted by sledger
Hence my question/query.
Have I been looking at the wrong notes?
Actually, neither do American, Canadian or New Zealand notes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rik
None-the-less, the symbol is still the $
the 'dollar' sign in the text is not very clear - but it is the same as the sign in blue at the top that we are asked to look for ;)
I try my best to make it similar. So, thanks for saying that.Quote:
Originally Posted by handrawn
And, it's for a bit of fun. To see just how long it takes you?!
Took me about 10 secs. Zooming in on the picture made it a lot easier ;)
Thank you [ctrl] and mouse scroll wheel :-bd
;)) Cool. There are no rules on how you find it, and I'm afraid there are no prizes for ingenuity!Quote:
Originally Posted by Fred vanderZee
I too had to zoom in, then I found it in about 10 secs. But I kept looking everyday at the normal size and never found it.
Just out of interest:
http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/...he-dollar-signQuote:
What is the origin of the dollar sign ($)?
Many suggestions have been made about the origin of the dollar symbol $, one of the commonest being that it derives from the figure 8, representing the Spanish 'piece of eight'. However, it actually comes from a handwritten 'ps', an abbreviation for 'peso' in old Spanish-American books. The $ symbol first occurs in the 1770s, in manuscript documents of English-Americans who had business dealings with Spanish-Americans, and it starts to appear in print after 1800.
The word 'dollar' itself derives from the Flemish or Low German word daler (in German taler or thaler), short for Joachimstaler, referring to a coin from the silver mines of Joachimstal, in Bohemia (now Jáchymov in the Czech Republic). The term was later applied to a coin used in the Spanish-American colonies and also in the British North American colonies at the time of the American War of Independence. It was adopted as the name of the US currency unit in the late 18th century.
Or the Dutch (which is basically Flemish kinda. or vice versa) 'Daalder'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
Same as Yankees comes from the flemish/dutch names 'Jan' and 'Kees'
Funny is how KIN(folk) is family, while the dutch word for children is KINderen
so the languages are connected.