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Spanish term or phrase:
1.651,27 miles de euros (conversión escrita)
English translation:
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1.651,27 miles de euros (gastos corrientes)
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I am not quite sure how to tackle this one. I converted it to millions but the customers is not so sure...i.e.€1,651,270. Anybody any ideas?, its just that €1,651.27 thousand doesn´t sound quite right, but I may be wrong...
This document is a company report and it´s written in Br. Eng.
This document is a company report and it´s written in Br. Eng.
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Aug 28, 2012 17:40: RSI EN-ES (AA) Created KOG entry
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It's up to the end client to decide.
I've been through precisely this situation. After going through the trouble of converting into millions expressed with a decimal, which sounds so much better, they had me change them all back to "thousands of," like 1651 thousand, which sounds awful.
The final recipient should decide which they want.
HTH
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Note added at 10 mins (2012-08-23 18:45:47 GMT)
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The figure is
1,651,270 euros.
The reason they express it this way is because the tables are expressed in 000s.
I've been through precisely this situation. After going through the trouble of converting into millions expressed with a decimal, which sounds so much better, they had me change them all back to "thousands of," like 1651 thousand, which sounds awful.
The final recipient should decide which they want.
HTH
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Note added at 10 mins (2012-08-23 18:45:47 GMT)
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The figure is
1,651,270 euros.
The reason they express it this way is because the tables are expressed in 000s.
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Ana Myriam Garro (X)
: I had exactly the same experience and I agree that it sounds awful
3 days 20 hrs
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That makes two of us :-)
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Discussion
Andrés, there are no billions here. It is one million six hundred and and fifty one thousand, etc.