Ah yes. Blue, green and green. The ideal chart colours.
🇵🇪 (Peru) only uses decimal for currency
I hope NASA checks Peruvians’ math before they accept their contributions to Artemis /s
Does decimal here mean (decimal) dot or do they not use decimal numbers/fractions?
Yes, they missed the word “dot” (as long as we can trust the unsourced Wikipedia list they probably used, I cannot find another English-language source confirming that). I was just kidding (as indicated by “/s”).
How many of the comma countries use the word for “point” when reading the decimal?
None?
Why would we say that?
There’s a comma, we say comma. Otherwise would be confusing.
There’s a period in English, but we don’t say period. We say point.
I was wondering about French because they also have the word “point”, but looking it up they say “and” or sometimes “comma”.
A point is a dot though. Isn’t it? In spanish “punto” means “dot”. It probably comes from latin.
In portuguese point and period are the same word “ponto”
I do a tax return for a guy who has some income in India. Their overall number formatting is so foreign to me, when I did this guy’s return for the first time, I had to screenshot a couple of the numbers and send them to an Indian friend of mine to ask what the hell the number was.
So after the first 3 zeroes, it’s a comma every second zero. And there are local names for those denominations.
So
10
100
1,000
10,000
1,00,000 = 1 Lakh or 1 Lac
10,00,000 = 10 Lakhs/Lacs
1,00,00,000 = 1 Crore
People generally don’t use the next set of names which are called 1 Arab and then 1 Kharab and probably a few more, they just start saying 1000 crores or lakhs of crore etc.
Many people also use millions and billions instead of the above.
And then decimals are denoted by a period, not commas.
Kind of related, our financial year is from 1st April till 31st March, so you gotta watch out for quarter numbers not matching. Our financial Q1 is the calendar Q2…
While I never enjoy the fiscal years some other countries use, I’m accustomed enough to work with them. It was the comma notation you’ve laid out that threw me the first time I saw it.
French Canadian. I once accidentally transferred WAY too much money in a banking transaction because of this.
Greenland and Russia making the blue solution look much more common than it really is (in terms of population).
And it’s wrong, though. In Russia, we use space to separate thousands (with the exception of 4 digit numbers) - 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10 000, 100 000, 1 000 000 etc. People who care about formatting use a special thin space instead.
For decimal point, commas are used in bureaucratic environments because of some GOST or something, while normal people use dots, because windows calculator doesn’t accept commas, and neither does Excel if I’m not mistaken. So it’s kind of both on that front.
Other parts of the world I can understand, but how did most of Europe end up being so incredibly wrong on which separator to use?
They do something different than me, therefore they are wrong.
Yes that’s what I said.
Ugh. I always thought the usa needed to go metric, but I have a hard time with thus difference
The US finally on the “most of the world does it this way, get with the program” side of the argument for once
This one isn’t as clear cut though. Most of the population uses dot. But most countries use comma.
One more case of England vs everyone else.
Data on Franz-Josef land but not Svalbard
Hmm, the polar bears must do something really weird.
I’m under the impression that for Switzerland, we normally use “,” (or at least for handwriting, that’s how I learned to write it at least) but because of shitty locale support, people use “.” on computers
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