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Not sure if this is a joke or serious. For those unfamiliar, period (.) is used as the thousands separator in European countries, whereas much of the world uses

• rad_gruchalski 2y ago
  It depends where in Europe ;) Switzerland, Liechtenstein and United Kingdom use decimal point.
  • nottorp 2y ago
    In Romania the comma should be the decimal separator in theory. In practice my online banking uses the dot, and doesn't accept commas anywhere. And it's a Romanian bank with a homemade web interface. I just checked 3 random paper receipts i had lying around (from different stores), two use the comma and one the dot.
    • maest 2y ago
      The French, on the other hand, religiously use the comma as a decimal separator.
  • Aaronmacaron 2y ago
    In Switzerland we mostly use the format 12'345'678.901 Obviously I'm biased but I think it's the best system because there's no room for confusion.
    • rad_gruchalski 2y ago
      But you do use a decimal point. Liechtenstein uses exactly the same format.
    • ido 2y ago
      Interesting! Does it differ in different languages? I assumed German Swiss will use the same system as Germany, French Swiss the same in French, etc.
• mrighele 2y ago
  It's not much of the world, it about "the former British empire", and the world is more or less split in half (check the wikipedia link that one of the sibling comments posted) I think that the best approach is to avoid to use comma or period as a thousand separator and just consider both of them as a decimal separator. It seems that the recommended approach for digit grouping is just a thin space [1], but since that character is not something that you can find on a regular keyboard and the regular space can be too wide, I think that one of the alternatives (like the apostrophe) is fine too. 169.216 or 169.216 can both be ambiguous , 169 216 and 169'216 or 169_216 much less [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Digit_grouping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Digit_groupi...