People be writing words with the letters all connected in cursive so the quill didn’t have to lift up or whatever.
How come they didn’t do that with the digits in numbers?
People be writing words with the letters all connected in cursive so the quill didn’t have to lift up or whatever.
How come they didn’t do that with the digits in numbers?
In a legal setting even those long numbers are still spelled out in contracts in many jurisdictions.
Ludicrous!
Although they did get spelled out on checks in the old days as a anti-fraud counter measure.
They still get spelled out on checks today.
There are still checks today?
Yes, I will be writing one to pay my rent later today.
Whoa
We still have a couple of fairly large companies that pay us by check. I hate it because our finance office requires that it be deposited immediately and it disrupts my day.
Which is weird, because since ~2006 all checks are treated the same as debit card transactions after the first check is processed, since both sides now have full routing info.
It’s important to spell out numbers in addition to writing them when it comes to important documents and such
It helps you verify the numbers are accurate
In the old days? I still do it. Just not that often.