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Re:Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV su... by Frost1x on Thursday May 12, 2022 @07:03AM (#31352199)
What, why? I've seen comma decimal separated values but I thought it was a weird English thing. What do these places use to separate larger values (e.g. each 10^3 magnitude increase) to make manual counting easier.

828.497.171.614,2?

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Re:Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV su... by slightwinder on Thursday May 12, 2022 @07:30AM (#31352423)
Yes, using a dot for grouping is a common solution. But it seems to be fading out because of the conflict. Other solutions are a space (12 345,67) or apostrophe also known as "highcomma" (12'345,67).
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Re:Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV su... by franga2000 on Thursday May 12, 2022 @07:21AM (#31352345)
Exactly. The "official way" of writing big numbers around here (I know at least the balkans, germany and austria) is `1.000.000,00 €` (1 million). So what you wrote, but always at least 2 decimal places (or zero if it's not a financial document).
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Re:Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV su... by Chris2048 on Thursday May 12, 2022 @07:34AM (#31352452)
Doh, Having two opposite conventions is a PITA.

But if I add my 2 cents - I prefer 1,000.00 because I think it is similar to commas and full-stops in writing, where a comma is mainly a reading/speaking guide to help break up a sentence (or in this case a number) and a full stop is a much harder termination of a sentence (in the case of a number the official origin where int/non-fractional part ends).

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Re:Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV su... by gpvos on Thursday May 12, 2022 @09:20AM (#31353725)
What is worse is the ignorance on the English-speaking side. We have been putting up with your stuff for a few decades now, and almost the entire population needs to know about it, while we see near-zero attempts to adapt from your side.
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Re:Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV su... by gpvos on Thursday May 12, 2022 @09:22AM (#31353755)
I'd argue the decimal separator is more important and should therefore be more visible; the comma is larger than the dot and extends below the baseline so is easier to see.
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Re:Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV su... by gmfawcett on Thursday May 12, 2022 @08:17AM (#31352898)
You could argue that both ways. "Here's a big amount. That's a moderate amount. And that is a small amount, with a tiny extra bit." :)
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Re:Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV su... by planede on Thursday May 12, 2022 @07:11AM (#31352267)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Digit_groupi...

They use spaces or dots.

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