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Going 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/Decim
by sfRattan 3y ago
Going 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.