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The use of a space as a thousands separator has been around since the 1940s as recommended by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and it was what w

The use of a space as a thousands separator has been around since the 1940s as recommended by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and it was what we used when I was a kid at school in the UK. They specified it should be a thin (half) space. https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/28433818/working-document-ID-10850/978c05bc-b4ce-adce-ba8b-8eb9bf48c509 https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/28433818/working-docume...

graypegg 2y ago
No I know, it's also part of the French standard. Just more so commenting on how uncommon it is from Canadian English speakers despite it being the Canadian English "standard" recommend by a Canadian entity similar to the French or German standards bodies.