Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to Data is Beautiful@mander.xyzEnglish · 3 months agoCharacter used to separate the decimal from the integerlemmy.mlimagemessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1244arrow-down18
arrow-up1236arrow-down1imageCharacter used to separate the decimal from the integerlemmy.mlBlaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to Data is Beautiful@mander.xyzEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square54fedilink
minus-squareBeardedBlaze@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down2·edit-23 months agoThe map doesn’t mention a thousand separator…
minus-squarezaphod@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·3 months agoBut it shows areas and how numbers are suposedly formatted in those areas and those numbers have thousand separators.
minus-squareBeardedBlaze@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·3 months agoBut it specifically only talks about separating the integer from the decimal. How can it be wrong about something it doesn’t talk about at all?
minus-squareChaoticNeutralCzechlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 months agoNot to mention that the Arabic world writes numbers with their own script: ۱٬۲۳٤٬٥٦۷٫۸۹ (Yes, that’s the official thousands separator U+060C and the official decimal separator U+060B and they do look suspisciously similar.)
The map doesn’t mention a thousand separator…
But it shows areas and how numbers are suposedly formatted in those areas and those numbers have thousand separators.
But it specifically only talks about separating the integer from the decimal. How can it be wrong about something it doesn’t talk about at all?
Not to mention that the Arabic world writes numbers with their own script:
۱٬۲۳٤٬٥٦۷٫۸۹
(Yes, that’s the official thousands separator U+060C and the official decimal separator U+060B and they do look suspisciously similar.)