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I know it's an irrational pet peeve, but i'd be happy if the German's (and others) would just stop using comma as decimal point.
by tux1968 5y ago
I know it's an irrational pet peeve, but i'd be happy if the German's (and others) would just stop using comma as decimal point.
- raverbashing 5y agoTo me is a bit weird, since I learned it that way. But the dot as decimal point also makes sense. Now, using comma as a thousands separator? Nuh-huh. Doesn't make any sense to me 2'000? Fine. 2_000? Fine. 2,000? It's just awful
- beefield 5y agoI'd be happy to compromise so that Europeans ban decimal comma and Americans start using metric system.
- dan-robertson 5y agoAt the international meridian conference of 1884, the French allowed the resolution for using the Greenwich meridian[1] to go through on the condition that another resolution promoting the use of the metric (or ‘decimal’) system (including decimal time!) also went through. [1] or as the French called it, “Paris mean time, retarded by 9 minutes and 21 seconds”