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Londoner here. Nope, we use a comma as a thousands separator. I believe some European countries use a period though.
by polymatter 9y ago
Londoner here.
Nope, we use a comma as a thousands separator. I believe some European countries use a period though.
- ianai 9y agoSpain maybe? I used to know the answer to this. I can at least confirm there's at least one such country that uses "." as a thousands separator. No word on whether they speak English. At this point that doesn't really matter. There are more English as a second language speakers of English than native speakers.
- anyfoo 9y agoGermany does.
- kbart 9y agoMost of Eastern Europe and I think Russia use dot as thousand separator. Though it's rare to see these days, it's much more common to simply use whitespace for that, like "1 000 000 000". On the other hand, comma usage for fraction separation is still a norm, for example, 0,99.
- dbrgn 9y agoSwitzerland uses the period as separator too.
- Double_a_92 9y agoAs decimal separator maybe, but not for thousands. E.g. 1'000'000.123 Nobody really cares what those sings are. The difference is top and bottom.
- pmontra 9y agoItaly should use a dot at the top (we did when I was little and learned to write), but it's not on any keyboard, even Italian ones, so we write 1'000'000,00. But 1.000.00,00 is also common. I don't know what Excel does but LO Calc uses this format #.###,00 for the Italian locale.
- oblio 9y agohttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/DecimalSeparator.svg/940px-DecimalSeparator.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/De... TL;DR: All of them, except for... you guessed it ;)