I hate how it's LTC/BTC, which essentially means (where I'm from) LTC per BTC, which would be the inverse of what it is said on BTC-E.. It confuses me every time..
In other words, the current rate of 0.03179 is the amount of BTC you need to pay per LTC, right? therefore it's BTC/LTC and not LTC/BTC which would be 1/0.03179 or 31.46..
Your logic makes sense, but I agree with the other guy. Typically units are written as km/hour which means kilometers per hour which if the number was 100 would mean 100 kilometers per hour.
LTC/BTC would be interpreted as Litecoins per Bitcoin, which should be 30 something not 0.03.
*shrugs* These are just conventions I guess.
lol why would you try to apply mathemtical notation to currency pairs?
forex has been using this notation forever
and why do random bitcointalk members think that they know better than the actual exchanges?