--On 3. februar 2003 21:07 -0800 Aaron Falk <falk@isi.edu> wrote:
It's just my Norwegian decimals.... both numbers are in the ballpark of a quarter million dollars.Well done, Harald! I applaud this move towards 'transparency.' One question. In the sentence on the finance page where you wrote: "In the US, this is one way in which hotels recover the cost of meeting rooms; in one recent query, the secretariat got a quote on meeting rooms without food for USD 238.000 (at 50% off list price). At a similar meeting where we got the meeting rooms for free, our food and beverages bill was approximately USD 250.000." I'm a little confused as to whether the decimal has been substituted for a comma or whether it's just in the wrong place or both.
(Norwegian, and many European languages, use comma to separate units and fractions, and the dot to separate thousands. Sometimes quite confusing....)
Harald