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Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals?
    #26480234 - 02/11/20 01:55 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

It seems like a dirty little secret


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: cannabinated]
    #26480243 - 02/11/20 01:59 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Good question!

My theory is that periods are strickly used for ends of sentences. For example: "At the party, Harry drank 3,5L of Vodka last night."


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: LogicaL Chaos] * 2
    #26480245 - 02/11/20 02:00 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

he drank 3, 5L vodaks :eek:


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: cannabinated] * 1
    #26480257 - 02/11/20 02:03 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Harry is hardcore! Usually he drinks 1,5L Vodka but that night was a special foriegn holiday occassion :cheers:


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: cannabinated]
    #26480259 - 02/11/20 02:04 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

I use them when signing a date or putting down a phone number. It's more efficient if you have to do it multiple times a day. As for long numbers, no. It doesn't make sense. Especially when you need a decimal.

I'd like to learn the universal way to write a date. Some places do month day year or day month year and some other variations.


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: cannabinated] * 1
    #26480314 - 02/11/20 02:20 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

ummm, I don't I paid attention in English and got A's.

Dangling Participle--my new band name!

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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26480325 - 02/11/20 02:24 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

It’s because the rest of the world uses periods when writing out large numbers.
$1 million = 1.000.000


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: feldman114] * 1
    #26480332 - 02/11/20 02:26 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

thats not a reason

in grammar commas govern an extension and periods mark an end

u guys do it backwards when it comes to numbers


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: feldman114]
    #26480334 - 02/11/20 02:26 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Ummm, they do? I've never seen that. Must be a new thing.


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26480344 - 02/11/20 02:30 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Yeah, that’s the only reason. You haven’t seen it since it doesn’t apply to most English speaking countries because:
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To avoid confusing the decimal separator with the multiplication sign, most European countries adopted the comma as a decimal separator. However, at the time, in the UK, the X was the popular symbol for multiplication, so British mathematicians continued to use the period as a decimal point.




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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: feldman114]
    #26480351 - 02/11/20 02:34 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

damn how archaic


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: cannabinated]
    #26480353 - 02/11/20 02:35 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

so to avoid confusing it.... lets use it many times in one number :lmafo:


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: cannabinated] * 1
    #26480364 - 02/11/20 02:38 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Hey now, no American should be making fun of EUROPEAN quirks...
Because there’s 1000mg in a gram, 1000g in a kilo, 100cm in a meter, and 1000ml in a liter!!!

Go ahead, tell me how many yards are in 155 miles? (Without googling)
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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: feldman114]
    #26480376 - 02/11/20 02:46 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

why would i ever need to know that

american units are based in real life


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: cannabinated]
    #26480411 - 02/11/20 02:59 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Ok. How many grams of weed are in 9 1/2 ounce bags?
I want an exact number without using a calculator.

Real life American lol


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: feldman114]
    #26480416 - 02/11/20 03:01 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

126


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: Crazy_Horse]
    #26480449 - 02/11/20 03:16 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

metric is good for abstraction, very large or small numbers


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: Crazy_Horse] * 1
    #26480465 - 02/11/20 03:20 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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126



Wrong


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: cannabinated]
    #26480470 - 02/11/20 03:23 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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metric is good for abstraction, very large or small numbers



Lol metric is good for everything. Super simple.
Yards and pounds are good for when your wheelbarrow gets stuck in your wood fireplace cause it’s 1856
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Reppin’ metric since 1986, yo.


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: feldman114]
    #26480479 - 02/11/20 03:26 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Stop trying to pretend ur an engineer


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: cannabinated]
    #26480482 - 02/11/20 03:27 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

u obv never started a fire or moved dirt


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: cannabinated]
    #26480489 - 02/11/20 03:30 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

I can be smart and do manly things!:crankey:

Naw, you’re totes right, but only cause I live in a city. Closest I did to man-work was unloading trucks🤷🏻‍♂️


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: feldman114]
    #26480490 - 02/11/20 03:30 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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126



Wrong



umm, he's right.


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: feldman114] * 1
    #26480495 - 02/11/20 03:33 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

approx 250k :shrug:

The math is a lil harder - but for everyday functional use it's pretty meaningless - your mind just gets used to the sizes entailed by the unit and most meaningful science in the US utilizes metric anyway.

Also, F > C for everyday use - all of the temps that people see most often everyday are squashed into 30 degrees in C, while in F you get it stretched out a bit so you get a lot more detail in the temperatures that people normally utilize.


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: feldman114]
    #26480503 - 02/11/20 03:35 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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I can be smart and do manly things!:crankey:

Naw, you’re totes right, but only cause I live in a city. Closest I did to man-work was unloading trucks🤷🏻‍♂️




Cause it was an automated process and u exist in the cloud :sip:

This isnt a metric discussion anyhow


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26480509 - 02/11/20 03:37 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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feldman114 said:
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126



Wrong



umm, he's right.



He’s wrong because there isn’t an even number of grams in an OZ.
The answer is 127.5 (rounded)


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: feldman114]
    #26480518 - 02/11/20 03:42 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Ummm, there's 28g to an ounce. Well, in the drug world of course, they just ignore that other almost half g, mo money!


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26480524 - 02/11/20 03:44 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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Ummm, there's 28g to an ounce.




I know, I know, I didn’t realize it for the longest time either, but

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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: feldman114]
    #26480527 - 02/11/20 03:45 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Meh, I don't deal so ...:shrug:


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26480537 - 02/11/20 03:49 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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Ummm, there's 28g to an ounce. Well, in the drug world of course, they just ignore that other almost half g, mo money!



Lol ok, that’s true. But it kinda reinforces my love for metric - our weed is being shorted by the system myeeeen.


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: feldman114]
    #26480555 - 02/11/20 03:53 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

LOL, yep! Always has been, but if they weigh the pound like that, then all is well.

28g = 1 oz

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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: feldman114]
    #26480557 - 02/11/20 03:53 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

the rounded down weed accounts for loss in transport and changes in water content

we have the game down to a science bro


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: cannabinated] * 1
    #26480581 - 02/11/20 04:03 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Still though I haven't figured out wtf is up with the interchanging between metric and standard in the cannabiz... or drugs in general.

I guess an oz is a nice inbetween of grams and a what, hectogram? Who the fuck weighs anything in hectograms :shrug:


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: twighead]
    #26480588 - 02/11/20 04:06 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

metric is good for rates

oz is gud for eyeballs


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: twighead]
    #26480923 - 02/11/20 07:32 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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Still though I haven't figured out wtf is up with the interchanging between metric and standard in the cannabiz... or drugs in general.

I guess an oz is a nice inbetween of grams and a what, hectogram? Who the fuck weighs anything in hectograms :shrug:





I think its because theres no gram equivalent in the US system.

And a Kilo is way more than a pound, so a pound is the "standard" large amount, at least in some cases (big box cases :wink:).


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
    #26480950 - 02/11/20 07:48 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

I don't get why america didn't switch to metric after they blew up a spaceshuttle because they fucked up the conversion.


https://www.simscale.com/blog/2017/12/nasa-mars-climate-orbiter-metric/


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: Ahab McBathsalts] * 1
    #26480955 - 02/11/20 07:50 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

scientists should only ever use metric


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: Ahab McBathsalts] * 1
    #26480957 - 02/11/20 07:51 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

because, america.


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26480965 - 02/11/20 07:54 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

and technichians/ nurses etc

unless its an obscure or archaic thing thats engrained like BTUs or mmHg


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26480967 - 02/11/20 07:55 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Floating the idea again would be a good way to distract from a political scandal. People would be livid.

You could hide fuel efficiency standards changes in the switch too.


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: Ahab McBathsalts]
    #26480970 - 02/11/20 07:56 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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I don't get why america didn't switch to metric after they blew up a spaceshuttle because they fucked up the conversion.


https://www.simscale.com/blog/2017/12/nasa-mars-climate-orbiter-metric/




U must have missed the news: https://www.space.com/3332-nasa-finally-metric.html

Good bye American Space Program :nonono:


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: Ahab McBathsalts]
    #26480977 - 02/11/20 08:03 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

I heard they are still trying to kill DST, I hope they do! In nursing we learned drams, tablespoons, teaspoons, etc,lol.


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    #26481081 - 02/11/20 09:02 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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I don't get why america didn't switch to metric after they blew up a spaceshuttle because they fucked up the conversion.


https://www.simscale.com/blog/2017/12/nasa-mars-climate-orbiter-metric/



The US still has a vastly higher success rate for mars missions than every metric using country though - almost all non-US missions have blown up, failed, etc... maybe because they're not using feet! :vaped:


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26481089 - 02/11/20 09:08 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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I heard they are still trying to kill DST, I hope they do! In nursing we learned drams, tablespoons, teaspoons, etc,lol.



My wife is doing nursing and for some reason they require them to know imperial units like that even here.


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: psi]
    #26481093 - 02/11/20 09:11 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Thats weird. I wonder why? Maybe its becauze there is no metric equivilent for teaspoons/tablespoons. :strokebeard:


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: LogicaL Chaos] * 1
    #26481106 - 02/11/20 09:20 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

I think it might be that they want it to be equivalent to a US nursing education if you want to go work there.


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: psi]
    #26481137 - 02/11/20 09:38 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

One thousand two hundred and fifty and a half litres?

1.250.5 Litres? Or what is that in fluid ounces or gallons?

:lol:

Only in America, (fuck logic and the rest of the world)

A period is a decimal point in mathematics. Simples.


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: psi]
    #26481220 - 02/11/20 11:18 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Makes sense. Nursing is a big profession in the US.

If periods are a decimal point in math, what is a comma?


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: LogicaL Chaos] * 2
    #26481231 - 02/11/20 11:34 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

You can call it a thousands separator, not sure if there is a more technical term. Unlike the decimal point though, it's not really needed for math per se so I don't think there is a technical math term for it. They are just there to help readability, and if they weren't there, the meaning would be the same.


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26481501 - 02/12/20 07:22 AM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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Ummm, there's 28g to an ounce. Well, in the drug world of course, they just ignore that other almost half g, mo money!




You can round it down to 28 when you're talking about one ounce, but when you start multiplying that by multiple ounces the rounding error increases until it's too big to be called rounding error.


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: feldman114]
    #26481579 - 02/12/20 08:22 AM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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It’s because the rest of the world uses periods when writing out large numbers.
$1 million = 1.000.000




Periods are full stops.  Commas represents continuity.


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: Patlal]
    #26481585 - 02/12/20 08:34 AM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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It’s because the rest of the world uses periods when writing out large numbers.
$1 million = 1.000.000




Periods are full stops.  Commas represents continuity.




So why do Americans use periods as decimal points?
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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: feldman114]
    #26481590 - 02/12/20 08:41 AM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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Ok. How many grams of weed are in 9 1/2 ounce bags?
I want an exact number without using a calculator.

Real life American lol



About 143.


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: Brian Jones]
    #26481640 - 02/12/20 09:19 AM (3 years, 11 months ago)

LOL, not to a drug dealer.:shrug:


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: tyrannicalrex]
    #26481668 - 02/12/20 09:47 AM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Perhaps the comma is meant to add a little Chaos to an otherwise Logical Metric system. Math symbolism gone Rogue :strokebeard:


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: psi]
    #26481675 - 02/12/20 09:57 AM (3 years, 11 months ago)

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I think it might be that they want it to be equivalent to a US nursing education if you want to go work there.



yep.


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: tyrannicalrex] * 2
    #26482237 - 02/12/20 03:57 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

And while we are it. Why does my laptop think I want to use Faroese English keyboard settings.

Whats up with that?


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: Tripsurfer] * 1
    #26482353 - 02/12/20 05:14 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Interesting....

Do you live in the Northeastern Altantic near Greenland? Do you sometimes speak Faroese English near your computer when its on? Did you recently buy a DNA test?


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: LogicaL Chaos] * 1
    #26493825 - 02/19/20 05:55 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

Trip Surfer just used the comma naturally in another thread: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/26493293#26493293

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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: LogicaL Chaos] * 1
    #26493898 - 02/19/20 06:38 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

+1 for that post and his:snowman:


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: feldman114] * 1
    #26497717 - 02/21/20 08:54 PM (3 years, 11 months ago)

We should go back to using the medieval 'bar' system. 2995


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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: LogicaL Chaos] * 1
    #26497851 - 02/22/20 12:01 AM (3 years, 11 months ago)

I never saw a calculator with a comma on it.


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