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Space is also confusing! Then it looks like two separate numbers. Underscore (_) is already used as a decimal separator in programming languages and Mathematic

by xyproto 8mo ago

Space is also confusing! Then it looks like two separate numbers. Underscore (_) is already used as a decimal separator in programming languages and Mathematics should just adopt it, IMO.

awakeasleep 8mo ago
A competing format to simplify things?
- ultratalk 8mo ago
  https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- bhaak 8mo ago
  A competing format that is understandable to probably everybody. An ISO 8601 date is also comprehensible to anybody even if they never seen it before and have to figure it out themselves.
  - fifilura 8mo ago
    Comprehensible? https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/ https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
    - bhaak 8mo ago
      I said date. Not time, not timestamp, not period, not week, not range, not ordinal date. Just date.
      - deleted 8mo ago
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wvbdmp 8mo ago
You mean thousands separator, yes? Agreed, it’s annoying when languages don’t have this feature.
- xyproto 8mo ago
  Ah yes, thousands separator.
wongarsu 8mo ago
A thin non-breaking space also clears up the confusion without the visual clutter of the underscore. It's just inconvenient to use