[OT] Decimal numbers

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Alhanalem

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tarquin said:
It really does make a huge difference to file size, though, as I saw earlier today with my map: 1,200MB instead of 1,900MB!
Just so you know, that reads to me as twelve hundred MB, not one and two tenths of a MB. (Dang, that's one big map.)
 
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Birelli

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I'd get used to it, there's a sizeable number of people out there (that I've seen) who use the comma as a decimal seperator and the period to group each set of 3 digits, as opposed to the more standard opposite of that. I was under the impression it was dominantly a scandinavian thing though, am I wrong about that?
 

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The Germans do it too, I know that for sure. I believe a good part of Europe exchanges the comma and the period when i comes to numbers. Hmmm, I wonder how long it would take a 1200 meg map to load? :lol:
 

Mychaeel

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Birelli said:
as opposed to the more standard opposite of that.
Note: The U.S. way of doing things !== the standard way of doing things.

In Germany, the standard way is using a comma as the decimal separator and grouping digits with either a point or a small space. Only when I'm writing decimal numbers in an English-spoken context, I use a point as the decimal separator and a comma to group digits.

Localization is a tricky subject. Just have a look at the "Regional and Language Options" dialog in the Windows control panel.
 
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Birelli

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I don't think it's a strictly U.S. way of doing things, maybe it's more of an English-speaking thing? I seem to remember most U.K. people I've talked to also use the period as a decimal seperator. I'm just curious about it, it seems like there's a lot of potential for confusion. In the case of a map size it's funny, but with less standard things it could be a problem.
 

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Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia... all put commas as a decimal sign and a space as a thousands separator.

Let's say we have one million point five.
U.S.: 1,000,000.5
Europe: 1 000 000,5