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Brits use middots as decimals?

• ectopod 4y ago
  We call them decimal points. Most software uses full stops (aka periods, because that's what's on the keyboard), but decimal points are normal in typeset and handwritten maths.
• bandie91 4y ago
  yea and more! they use low-dot (period) when multiplying variables, and Roman digit for 1, and does not use the "-rd" ending names for the power of 1000: milliard, billiard…