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Adding to this: ALWAYS use spaces as thousand-separators. Resist the temptation to use commas or dots as thousand-separators. Seeing a number with a dot as a d
by molf 7y ago
Adding to this: ALWAYS use spaces as thousand-separators.
Resist the temptation to use commas or dots as thousand-separators. Seeing a number with a dot as a decimal separator instead of a comma will be fine for most people (even if proper localisation would mean using a comma), but if you throw in commas that mean something else you WILL confuse people. And I imagine the inverse is also true.
- stronglikedan 7y agoA space between numbers makes two separate numbers.
- stronglikedan 7y agoI would love to hear why that's wrong, when we use whitespace to separate pretty much everything in textual representation.
- NikkiA 7y agoWell, SI did standardize the thousands separator as space, so there is at least precedence for using spaced numbers there. I personally don't like it though, and tend to prefer either the swiss system (ie, 3'800'000.0), or maritime system (ie 3_800_000.0) if separators must be used