Karte der Dezimaltrennzeichen in Europa
Von ketherbird
Karte der Dezimaltrennzeichen in Europa
Von ketherbird
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I found out there was a difference because I was raised by immigrants and my teacher thought I was being difficult
This confused me when I first went to Europe.
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The decimal separator doesn’t really matter to me, either works fine.
But I do like that some of Europe uses spaces as the thousands separator. That removes any ambiguity, regardless of which decimal separator is used.
So for 1 million instead of 1,000,000 or 1.000.000 it’s 1 000 000
Can be a bit useful with decimal numbers like 8,637.89 / 8.6374,89
With spaces as thousands separator, it’s 8 637.89 or 8 637,89
No matter the decimal separator, it’s clearer what the number is supposed to be to people not aware that countries use different decimal separators.
(8 thousand 6 hundred and 37 point 89)
Much like our plug socket, ours is the best.
So before people get confused about Switzerland:
We use an apostrophe to do thousands, so there is no confusion with that. For money the . is common as a decimal seperator, whereas the comma is used for most other things. But both are okay to use in any case essentially.
So you could write one hundred thousand point five as 100’000.5 or 100’000,5 depending on context.
BOTH??
I use both or I just put space between numbers, I don’t really care
That explains Brexit then
It disappoints me to learn that Europe uses the incorrect decimal separator.
In Turkish you write comma but say „nokta“, which means „point“ / „period“.
We use commas as thousand separators so the full stop makes sense to me, especially for money. So if something was one thousand euro and forty one cent, I’d write it as €1,000.41
There’s also a difference between an English billion (1000 millions) and a Spanish billion (a million millions)
UK makes sense because they use commas to separate parts within one sentence and parts within one integer (e.g. 6,969,696). Mainland Europe changes the rule of commas depending on if it’s a number or a sentence.
I used to work for a Greek company and it would trigger the fuck out of me when they would present prices like £1.000
In Croatia in school we learnt that . is correct.
Ngl the sight of a comma decimal point makes me throw up in my mouth.
Switzerland speaks every language of money
Switzerland like this 1,.000?
At work I’m using a software that shows the numbers one way „1,5“ but requires you to input them the other way „1.5“. So you input 1.5, it accepts it and then proudly shows 1,5. If you input 1,5 it doesn’t work. It’s kind of hilarious.
I use both too. There are any reason to not?
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