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Somebody told me that the official international standard prefers comma; a period is just a permitted alternative. Of course, comma as decimal separator isn't v
by bloak 4y ago
Somebody told me that the official international standard prefers comma; a period is just a permitted alternative. Of course, comma as decimal separator isn't very compatible with programming languages.
However, the decimal separator that I was taught at primary school and have used in handwriting all my life is neither comma, nor period, but '·'.
- Frost1x 4y agoWhat, why? I've seen comma decimal separated values but I thought it was a weird English thing. What do these places use to separate larger values (e.g. each 10^3 magnitude increase) to make manual counting easier. 828.497.171.614,2?
- franga2000 4y agoExactly. The "official way" of writing big numbers around here (I know at least the balkans, germany and austria) is `1.000.000,00 €` (1 million). So what you wrote, but always at least 2 decimal places (or zero if it's not a financial document).
- Chris2048 4y agoDoh, Having two opposite conventions is a PITA. But if I add my 2 cents - I prefer 1,000.00 because I think it is similar to commas and full-stops in writing, where a comma is mainly a reading/speaking guide to help break up a sentence (or in this case a number) and a full stop is a much harder termination of a sentence (in the case of a number the official origin where int/non-fractional part ends).
- gpvos 4y agoWhat is worse is the ignorance on the English-speaking side. We have been putting up with your stuff for a few decades now, and almost the entire population needs to know about it, while we see near-zero attempts to adapt from your side.
- gmfawcett 4y agoYou could argue that both ways. "Here's a big amount. That's a moderate amount. And that is a small amount, with a tiny extra bit." :)
- gpvos 4y agoI'd argue the decimal separator is more important and should therefore be more visible; the comma is larger than the dot and extends below the baseline so is easier to see.
- planede 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Digit_grouping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Digit_groupi... They use spaces or dots.
- slightwinder 4y agoYes, using a dot for grouping is a common solution. But it seems to be fading out because of the conflict. Other solutions are a space (12 345,67) or apostrophe also known as "highcomma" (12'345,67).