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Very confusing numbers: > Amount of USD: 405.413,19 Is that ~$405 or ~$405413? What about the hosting costs?
by ecmascript 6y ago
Very confusing numbers:
> Amount of USD: 405.413,19
Is that ~$405 or ~$405413?
What about the hosting costs?
- rmellow 6y agoIn some countries the decimal symbol is a comma. So, the latter.
- viraptor 6y agoIt's $405413. Using Spanish formatting I believe. (comma as a decimal point and the dot for thousands)
- rtkwe 6y agoA lot of the world uses comma separators actually including basically all of Europe minus a few. The whole wikipedia article is kind of neat; never figured California would have a weird system for a while where decimal parts on signs were expressed as super scripts (eg 3^7 meant 3.7). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#/media/File:DecimalSeparator.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#/media/File:...
- viraptor 6y agoThat's true, but much fewer use the dot as the thousands separator. Very often it's a space instead.
- tesseract 6y agoSuperscript decimals are pretty common in the US for handwritten money amounts (like on checks or price tags) but outside that context it does seem weird!
- DavidSJ 6y agoSome examples of this on price tags: https://4.imimg.com/data4/VV/RV/MY-3648905/price-tag-250x250.jpg https://4.imimg.com/data4/VV/RV/MY-3648905/price-tag-250x250... https://www.coloraccounting.com/uploads/2/4/8/0/24801950/published/p1_60.jpg?1527788559 https://www.coloraccounting.com/uploads/2/4/8/0/24801950/pub... https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQu8Dmw4hD8Az6VSydG1sq4Sr6ra_kHyuoFkw&usqp=CAU https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQu8D... On gas stations, the superscript is indicating tenths of a penny, rather than pennies. That latter practice is not exclusive to the US. This sign is from Germany or Austria I believe (LKW is German): https://c8.alamy.com/comp/D3XKHG/price-board-a-gas-station-with-high-gas-petrol-prices-D3XKHG.jpg https://c8.alamy.com/comp/D3XKHG/price-board-a-gas-station-w...
- rtkwe 6y agoHmm never really thought of those as super scripts, maybe because they don't extend above the main digit?
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- karagenit 6y agoIt's the latter, many non-American countries flip the usage of the comma and the period symbols in numbers.
- saalweachter 6y agoAs was pointed out last year, given stock growth and splits, if they actually bought and held that much stock, it's probably $2M+ by now.
- ecmascript 6y agoIf they actually held that much stock, it would probably be very tempting to just cash out as well.
- rtkwe 6y agoOther countries use the comma as the decimal separator and periods as the thousands separator. It's just something you get used to eventually.
- markstos 6y agoThe "e" in your ecmascript username stands for "European". The currency formatting you have a question about is European formatting. https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/9105/international-currency-formatting-guidelines-currency-codes https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/9105/international-cu...