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> Europeans give up decimal comma and US gives up imperial measurements. I’m a European, and I hate decimal comma. When consuming data saved by MS Excel or sim
by Const-me 4y ago
> Europeans give up decimal comma and US gives up imperial measurements.
I’m a European, and I hate decimal comma. When consuming data saved by MS Excel or similar, dealing with decimal commas is an ongoing source of annoyance and compatibility bugs, for all my 22 years in the software industry.
Modern software has American roots. Many programming languages like C, C++ and Python are using dot when printing or parsing floats with their standard libraries. It’s even in the name, these numbers are called “floating point” not “floating comma”.
- jaclaz 4y agoAlso in Excel you can set (as per your language used) the comma as decimal separator, but internally it remains dot, an example is the VBA Evaluate function.