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A side question, do you know the Germans always used a comma as the decimal point, or was it changed over because it was clearer.
by yitchelle 10y ago
A side question, do you know the Germans always used a comma as the decimal point, or was it changed over because it was clearer.
- creshal 10y agoThe history isn't entirely clear. Early on, a lot of separators were used, but it seems that in the 18th century, France standardized on the comma, spreading it to the rest of continental Europe, while Britain settled on the decimal point. And their spheres of influence pretty much settled the question internationally: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/DecimalSeparator.svg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/DecimalS...