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slightly tangent: is there any reason OP preferred "," over "."? It looks so disturbing to me to be honest.
by mshockwave 5y ago
slightly tangent: is there any reason OP preferred "," over "."? It looks so disturbing to me to be honest.
- turkeywelder 5y agoThat's how most of Europe do decimal places, using commas instead of full stops.
- goosedragons 5y agoI get it and it's probably done out of habit but in English it's just weird. AFAIK no English speaking majority area does it either.
- dragonwriter 5y agoProbably because the OP is from one of the many parts of the world where “,” is the decimal point and “.” is the thousands separator.
- kencausey 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator (i.e. not everyone uses a period)
- lm28469 5y agoYes, he's from Denmark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
- tveyben 5y agoWell Oslo is not in Denmark, but in Norway (a different country). I (from Denmark) find it "disturbing" to see `.´ as the decimal point, AM/PM for time, as well as writing the DAY before the MONTH (MM/DD-YYYY). https://m.xkcd.com/927/ https://m.xkcd.com/927/ https://www.ctrl.blog/about/ https://www.ctrl.blog/about/ "Ctrl blog (“Control blog”) is the developer-focused blog of Daniel Aleksandersen based in Oslo, Norway."
- bombcar 5y agoLet’s compromise: 1-253/234 for the thousands separator and the decimal. And YY.DD,MM for the date.
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- d2wa 5y agoIt’s the SI and ISO standard decimal separator. It’s also the world’s most commonly used decimal separator. (Everywhere but the US uses space as the thousand separator.)