Petrikaspetrikas@mastodon.online
Nov 2, 2026, 3:07 PM@peterfr Firstly, I have never seen a '.' as thousand separator in Europe. If a thousand separator is used, shouldn't it be used only when there's at least a thousand?
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- Petrikaspetrikas@mastodon.onlineNov 2, 2026, 3:10 PM
@peterfr Seems that selecting any of the bottom two provides an intuitive answer.
peterfrpeterfr@mastodon.artNov 2, 2026, 3:13 PM@petrikas not the thousands separator, the decimal separator.
- Petrikaspetrikas@mastodon.onlineNov 2, 2026, 3:22 PM
@peterfr I'm lost, let's break it down.
In EU both 8.2 and 8,2 are the same number.The difference only comes when we're dealing with thousands.
8.200,0 (never seen it written this way)
8 200,0 (possibly deprecated, rarely used)
8,200.0 (acceptable, still confusing)
8 200.0 (common)Right?
Clemensneverpanic@chaos.socialNov 6, 2026, 1:10 PM@petrikas 8.200,0 is how German schools teach it. It's common there.
