| ▲ | nubinetwork an hour ago |
| Can we start using a comma as a thousands separator instead of a period? |
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| ▲ | reddalo an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| Period is the thousands separator and comma is the decimal separator in almost all European countries. |
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| ▲ | Stitch4223 an hour ago | parent [-] | | We checked this before going live and came to the same conclusion. We also discovered that the official languages of the EU are all 24 languages, but we chose to write the post in English and not AI-translate it. |
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| ▲ | usrnm an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| In most (all?) European countries comma is the decimal separator |
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| ▲ | usui an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I skimmed https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator but still don't understand. Why does this difference exist? Also, why did the conflict eventually settle into something between full stops and commas? What stopped other symbols from continued usage like bars or underscores? It seems weird that a system would eventually settle on just full stops and commas, yet not settle on where to put them. If your system is going to converge strongly on two symbols, finish the job! | |
| ▲ | veltas an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not in e.g. UK. | | |
| ▲ | reddalo 40 minutes ago | parent [-] | | The UK is sadly not in the European Union and it wasn't included in this study. |
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| ▲ | lofaszvanitt an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Oh no way. First, replace fahrenheit to celsius, then miles to kms and we are all set to a nice, unified future. |
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