Re:Boeing Engineers Set a New Record for Paper Plane Distance
by mijamo on Friday March 03, 2023 @12:47PM
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It is not EU vs US. Countries have different norms. In France for instance the thousand separator is a simple space, no comma or dot.
And the reason for the comma instead of the dot comes from mathematics to avoid confusion with the multiplication sign · when writing.
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Re:Boeing Engineers Set a New Record for Paper Plane Distance
by frosted-flakes on Friday March 03, 2023 @01:56PM
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Canada also uses a space as a thousands separator, while English Canada uses a decimal point and French Canada uses a decimal comma. The use of a space as a thousands separator is explicitly to reduce confusion and ambiguity.
Re:Boeing Engineers Set a New Record for Paper Plane Distance
by Terretta on Friday March 03, 2023 @05:58PM
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> the reason for the comma instead of the dot comes from mathematics to avoid confusion with the multiplication sign · when writing
I've heard that, but I think it's trying to back into a rationale since it makes no sense, people do multiply by 3 digit numbers.
FWIW, when I was in grade school in France, no, we didn't separate thousands by space. Then again, my school was on the border with Switzerland, so *shrug* who knows!?!