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IIRC most of mainland Europe formats numbers this way ('.' for thousand separator ',' for decimal separator) Strangely there doesn't seem to be a 'falsehoods p
by MattBearman 7y ago
IIRC most of mainland Europe formats numbers this way ('.' for thousand separator ',' for decimal separator)
Strangely there doesn't seem to be a 'falsehoods programmers believe about numbers' post, but if there were, this would definitely feature :)
- oliwarner 7y agoMost? A very large chunk use spaces or thin-spaces as thousand separators. By GDP, at least, periods are probably in the minority.
- metafunctor 7y agoGermany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium at least appear to use a period as the thousands separator. Quite of lot of population and GDP there already.
- 317070 7y agoAt least Belgium officially uses spaces as thousands seperator [0] [0] http://ond.vvkso-ict.com/vvksomainnieuw/brochure/Vouwblad%20BIN-normen%20Zwart.pdf http://ond.vvkso-ict.com/vvksomainnieuw/brochure/Vouwblad%20...
- swiley 7y agoThe spaces is an iso standard. Most Europeans I’ve talked to use “,” for the radix and “.” For the separator. Personally I really like spaces since they’re unambiguous.
- vetinari 7y agoEuropean here, in my corner we use spaces for thousands separator and commas for the radix. But hey, we have several different standards for power plugs and outlets, so no surprise that other stuff is different too.
- house9-2 7y ago> Personally I really like spaces since they’re unambiguous. But not if you are writing with a pen or pencil, a visible token makes way more sense.
- davemp 7y agoI've seen '⎵' commonly used as an unambiguous space. Maybe that could work?