• BlackLaZoR
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    American notation - they use comma every three orders of magnitude, and dot for decimal separator. It’s almost as retarded as imperial measurement system, but what can you do.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      302 months ago

      Dafuq? It makes way more sense than using a dot for the separator and a comma for the decimals. Commas are literally for separating related ideas in a single sentence. The thousands position is related to/part of the hundreds place in a single number. What’s your crazy logic for using a terminator within a single number representation?

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        Commas are literally for separating related ideas in a single sentence.

        While I personally think it’s arbitrary which characters to use as separators I can’t follow that logic.

        Thinking of sentences, a comma separates stuff that belongs together while a dot is literally a full stop. All of the comma/dot separated parts belong to the same number though. So, why are thousands/millions more closely related than integers/digits?

        • warm
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          You said it yourself, “a comma separates stuff that belongs together”. The integers. I can type 27000 and its valid, I can space them integers with a comma 27,000 they belong together. Decimals are different to integers, so they are marked with a period, like the end of a sentence (of integers).

          You can argue either way honestly, but more of the world use periods for decimal notation. So it would make more sense if we just adopted that (never going to happen though).

          • @[email protected]
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            27,000 and 1.5

            Why do 27 and 000 belong closer together than 1 and 5? Both numbers are incomplete when leaving out a component.

            You can argue either way honestly

            Agreed, it’s completely arbitrary.

            more of the world use periods for decimal notation

            It’s two pretty large groups but you’ve got India and China, so population wise it’s pretty clear. Let’s make a deal: we (Europe) switch to the dot as decimal separator if the US switches to metric.

            • warm
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              12 months ago

              I kinda like laughing at the US for measuring things in AR15s though.

      • BlackLaZoR
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        -12 months ago

        It makes way more sense than using a dot for the separator and a comma for the decimals.

        How about using spaces?

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          I will smash your face through a car windshield, then take your mother, Dorothy Nantooth, out to a nice seafood dinner, and never call her again!

          • @Fetus
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            DOROTHY MANTOOTH IS A SAINT!

    • Blaze (he/him)OP
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      112 months ago

      I’m not even American, just used the same notation as in the article.

      Seems to still be confusing based on the comments, go figure.

      • @SchmidtGenetics
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        292 months ago

        People seem to lack any critical thinking, who would put three zeros for cents? It’s obviously a thousands denominator. The context makes it obvious regardless of a comma, period or space.

      • @Zorque
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        222 months ago

        Nah, people just enjoy being pedantic little shits.

        Case in point, me! I am a pedantic little shit.