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Fri Apr-04-08 11:03 PM
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| Question I must ask - any Europeans around? |
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Edited on Fri Apr-04-08 11:05 PM by ikhor
In the US, we use the the comma to denote thousands and the decimal point to denote a fraction.
In Europe, they use the comma to denote a fraction and the decimal point to denote thousands.
WTF DUDE?
did somebody just do this out of spite or what? Who made this the exact opposite? (or am i wrong?)
(non-Uk i mean)
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Fri Apr-04-08 11:08 PM
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| 1. They were around before we were. |
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If anybody focked it up, we did.
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Fri Apr-04-08 11:12 PM
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who was responsible for this spite-based decision? I seriously want to know, because it is a pain in the ass to write software for US and Europe simultaneously because you have to reverse everything.....
(was it spite based?)
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Sat Apr-05-08 10:54 AM
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| 3. Just seems to be all-round confusion |
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