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LogicaL Chaos
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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 (4 years, 5 days ago) |
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Ahab McBathsalts said: 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
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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 (4 years, 5 days 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.
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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: Ahab McBathsalts] 1
#26481081 - 02/11/20 09:02 PM (4 years, 5 days ago) |
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Ahab McBathsalts said: 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!
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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#26481089 - 02/11/20 09:08 PM (4 years, 5 days ago) |
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tyrannicalrex said: 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 (4 years, 5 days ago) |
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Thats weird. I wonder why? Maybe its becauze there is no metric equivilent for teaspoons/tablespoons.
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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 (4 years, 5 days 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.
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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: psi]
#26481137 - 02/11/20 09:38 PM (4 years, 5 days ago) |
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One thousand two hundred and fifty and a half litres?
1.250.5 Litres? Or what is that in fluid ounces or gallons?

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 (4 years, 5 days ago) |
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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 (4 years, 5 days ago) |
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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 (4 years, 5 days ago) |
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tyrannicalrex said: 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 (4 years, 5 days ago) |
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feldman114 said: 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 (4 years, 5 days ago) |
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Patlal said:
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feldman114 said: 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 (4 years, 5 days ago) |
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feldman114 said: 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 (4 years, 5 days ago) |
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LOL, not to a drug dealer.
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LogicaL Chaos
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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#26481668 - 02/12/20 09:47 AM (4 years, 5 days ago) |
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Perhaps the comma is meant to add a little Chaos to an otherwise Logical Metric system. Math symbolism gone Rogue
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Re: Why do u foreign peeps use commas instead of decimals? [Re: psi]
#26481675 - 02/12/20 09:57 AM (4 years, 5 days ago) |
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psi said: 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 (4 years, 5 days ago) |
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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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LogicaL Chaos
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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 (4 years, 5 days ago) |
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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) |
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Trip Surfer just used the comma naturally in another thread: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/26493293#26493293
Thanks you Trip Surfer
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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) |
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+1 for that post and his
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