New answers tagged numbers
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Like @Bart, I thought to the decimal separator : “,” or “.”
It may be a good idea to accept the signs “+” and “−”, and “-” of course [“−” is a “minus” sign, and “-” is a hyphen].
The same goes for the space, and some of its variants : non-breaking space, thin space… When I want to transfer 1 million dollars, I type “1 000 000”.
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Client-side validation can be helpful, but you need to be very careful how you implement it; it's easy to make it unhelpful to the user.
For example, if you silently ignore non-numeric characters, then a user quickly typing '12.34' might not realise that the field has ignored their decimal point and accepted the text as '1234'.
Another example; if you ...
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There is a standard prefix for billions, and that is a G. Anything using a computer user uses the SI metric prifixes, and most people are used to talking about GB (and even TB) already. So I would recommend sticking to the SI metric prefixes.
The problem with using B or Billion is that the word 'billion' has two meanings depending on the country that ...
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Some ideas :
Are you sure you only have 4 characters to display the numbers? You should think pixels instead of characters. Maybe you can use a 8 pixels police that would make you gain a character.
Can't you use a magnifier, a tooltip or something else of that kind?
If it is a charter application, I guess numbers are important: if you have only 4 ...
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I'd say you have 2 possible solutions.
When in the billions, only use 1 digit, followed by Bn
Use B
I think in the context of money, people will understand what B means, especially if they know they're dealing with large quantities of money.
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You would have to test with your audience, but I would opt for symbols where they are clear to most people. For anything numerical, X > Y is clear. I can't speak for all cultures, but I covered this in grade 4 at school, so I would assume the majority of people have at least this level of mathematical understanding.
I would also opt to do the same for ...
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Maybe even less "boolean" kind of language than your suggestion. Instead of
URL contains google.com and Visits > 1000 and Date is before
30.12.2011
maybe a more language-ish approach might be better
The address contains google.com and has more visits than 1000 and it was created before 30.12.2011
If the string gets really long, mabye splitting it up ...
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