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If I'm not mistaken this is pretty universal outside of the US (and maybe the UK).
by Gabriel54 3y ago
If I'm not mistaken this is pretty universal outside of the US (and maybe the UK).
- zztop44 3y agoYou are mistaken. Probably more countries overall use a decimal comma, but the decimal point is used as convention in many countries, including China, India, Nigeria and the Philippines.
- sfRattan 3y agoGoing by the Wikipedia article and included map, use of comma versus period as decimal separators is roughly an even split: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DecimalSeparator.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DecimalSeparator.svg
- fshr 3y agoThere's definitely a big distribution disparity. 11 of the 15 most populous countries use the period for decimals.
- micheljansen 3y agoMost of Europe is in the fat long tail though, as those countries are counted individually.
- Larrikin 3y agoSeems geographically split, but I wonder what is the actual population split is. Most of the top 10 population countries use the decimal separator. Only Brazil, Russia and Indonesia don't. Maybe someone with a CSV of the world populations and a CSV of the countries broken down by their separator can do that comparison.