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I don't know what the source of this convention is, but this is why I was taught that the version "1.2.3" should be read aloud as "one dot two dot three" instea
by rimunroe 7y ago
I don't know what the source of this convention is, but this is why I was taught that the version "1.2.3" should be read aloud as "one dot two dot three" instead of "one point two point three". The idea is that people--where I'm from at least--tend to read decimals as "point" and not "dot".
- sjwright 7y agoYes, sadly the proliferation of the "two point oh" meme has set society back on that front. (Had we the opportunity to start over, I would have proposed different punctuation for the delimiter to avoid natural confusion with decimals.)