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According to some of my friends with kids there, Japanese public schools used to teach putting a comma every 3rd digit but for the past few years have been usin
by AlchemistCamp 3y ago
According to some of my friends with kids there, Japanese public schools used to teach putting a comma every 3rd digit but for the past few years have been using a comma every 4th digit.
- pezezin 3y agoThat has to be a pretty recent development, because I have lived here for 5 years and I have never seen a number written like that. Sometimes you will see numbers written with the corresponding kanji after every four digits, like 1億2345万6789, which I like because it quickly tells you the magnitude, but it is not very common.
- AlchemistCamp 3y agoLooks like there's some news about the change in Japan: https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/10-000-or-1-0000-japanese-schools-are-starting-to-move-commas-on-big-numbers-but-why https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/10-000-or... I also see that mixed character-numeral format you mentioned pretty commonly here in Taiwan, especially with 萬 (simplified to 万 in Japan post-WWII). For really large numbers, there's usually not so much precision, so the tail part is just dropped.