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Nitpick, pet peeve and a side bar: The idiocy of the Americans still using Miles, pounds, gallons is only matched by the idiocy of the Europeans using a comma when they should be using a period.
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I wonder which one is original: 1,000,000.00 or 1.000.000,00Nitpick, pet peeve and a side bar: The idiocy of the Americans still using Miles, pounds, gallons is only matched by the idiocy of the Europeans using a comma when they should be using a period.
Nitpick, pet peeve and a side bar: The idiocy of the Americans still using Miles, pounds, gallons is only matched by the idiocy of the Europeans using a comma when they should be using a period.
I wonder which one is original: 1,000,000.00 or 1.000.000,00
ISO 8601 is logical system for time (2018-01-04T12:45:37Z), of course it is not in common use anywhere.
There sort of is -- ISO 31-0 standard ISO 31-0 - Wikipedia . Among other things, it says:Continuing the aside ...
Neither. There was no universal system for formatting numbers. Eventually, especially due to printing, it was whittled down to 3 and then finally 2 systems.
It allows either period or comma for the decimal, though... doesn't help a lot there.
- Numbers consisting of long sequences of digits can be made more readable by separating them into groups, preferably groups of three, separated by a small space. For this reason, ISO 31-0 specifies that such groups of digits should never be separated by a comma or point, as these are reserved for use as the decimal sign.
There sort of is -- ISO 31-0 standard ISO 31-0 - Wikipedia . Among other things, it says:
It allows either period or comma for the decimal, though... doesn't help a lot there.
Continuing the aside ...
Neither. There was no universal system for formatting numbers. Eventually, especially due to printing, it was whittled down to 3 and then finally 2 systems.
Yes, _3_. The mid-point (·) was used quite a bit instead of the period.
I suspect that it's used billions of times per day. Log files can get pretty big.
Since we call it a decimal point, do they call it a decimal comma?
Or as someone said in the past, where there's 2 people there are 3 opinions.The only thing better than a standard way of doing something is another standard way of doing the same thing!
There are lots of quirks with our numbering system that will probably never be corrected.
Because we are base10, there are issues with equivalency when doing math using binary computers, so you need deal with it using BCD or other methods. For quite awhile Microsoft Excel would make mistakes in equivalency. Why is that important? It's often used for accounting and engineering. Two identical numbers can be reported as different depending on how you arrived at the number.
We use a l and a I, and a 1, and a | in the base ASCII set. None of those mean the same thing.
We use 0 and O as well as S and 5, etc, etc.
We refuse to do everything on a 24h clock, so there are two 12:00's each day. The separate them by using am pm designators, but confusion is common which is which.
The comma issue is another that should not be there. 123, 456, 789, 000, could be either a list, or a really big number. ie - The comma means multiple things when used with numbers.
AND FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!!!
That brings up another very important point. A magnificent shibboleth to determine if a writer is either sloppy or ignorant - and those two are by no means mutually exclusive - is to observe inappropriate use (rather than their omission) of significant digits.This latter is, in my experience, far more common than the error you mention. It also is, unfortunately, pervasive through our society, no more tragically so than in intra-scholastic rankings where the difference between a 4.000 average and a 3.998 one means DingleDong1 goes to CalTech and DingleDong2 is banished to (The Horror!) MIT. THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE between those two - not unless the school's teachers perform the impossible task of crafting every single grade on every quiz, paper, test, attendance, attitude and posture with those three significant digits. None. Zero. Zilch. Rien. Zettainanimonashi. Nada.There is certainly a difference between 0.01, 0.010, and 0.0100. DO NOT CHUCK SIGNIFICANT DIGITS!!! They actually mean something.
And yes. The US should be metric by now. All our measuring equipment is dual mode now, medical devices are metric, military is metric, aviation design is metric, cars are now metric, and most our food is marked both ways. The construction industry is the last significant holdout.
Then you have the French (perhaps all of Europe?) style of writing numerals. They place a small serif on the number 1; consequently they have to place a horizontal line through the number 7 to avoid ambiguity. Why? Seems like an unnecessary waste of motion. I had a client many years ago who would record her expenditures with this style. Really hard to get amounts to reconcile or foot because I misunderstood some of her figures.