Currency

Currency

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Use Numerals

Use numerals. "One hundred pounds", should be '£100'.

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Million and Billion

• For million, use m: £10m

• Billion should be abbreviated to bn: £30bn

• This is the case even in strict/super strict verbatim (unless they stutter, or don't complete the amount without other speech or stammer, e.g. "a hundred and er, a hundred and twenty")

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Money vs People/Animals

Use 'm' for:

• Sums of money: £10m

• Units: 45m tonnes of coal

• Inanimate objects: 30m doses of vaccine

Use 'million' for:

• People: 1 million people

• Animals: 23 million rabbits

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Billion Rules

Billion follows the same rules, but should be 'bn' not 'b'.

Examples:

• £5bn investment (money)

• 2 billion people (people)

• 10bn doses (inanimate objects)

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Formatting Examples

Standard amounts:

• £15

• $100

• €50

Large amounts:

• £15m (fifteen million pounds)

• $2bn (two billion dollars)

• 5 million people

• 3 billion animals