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Subject:RE: Help needed with terminology From:"Elizabeth Wilczek" <betsywilczek -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Thu, 17 Feb 2000 07:40:22 EST
How about
"Enter the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rounded off to two decimal places--for
example '1.03'."
Don't use "i.e." (which means "that is") as if it meant "for example." You
can use "e.g." if you want, but "for example" is better and clearer, IMHO.
Betsy Devine Wilczek
Webmistress
Society for Technical Communication, NJ Chapter
Meeting in Iselin, Saturday, February 26, 2000
www.njstc.org
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on Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:00:27
Suzette Seveny <sseveny -at- petvalu -dot- com> wrote:
I need help with a specific term used in financial systems. I need to
tell the user to enter a number is a specific format - and I know there is a
term for this type of format. Here is an example:
Enter the Consumer Price Index (CPI) number with a significance of 2, i.e.
1.03.
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