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From: Terence on 4 May 2008 23:55
Several european languages and all of South America write cent values
after a comma, and so continue to do so in mathematics with "decimal
commas". It has always caused problems in reading transcribed data in
scientific and accounting applications.
From: Janne Blomqvist on 5 May 2008 02:56
On 2008-05-05, Terence <tbwright(a)cantv.net> wrote:
> Several european languages and all of South America write cent values
> after a comma, and so continue to do so in mathematics with "decimal
> commas". It has always caused problems in reading transcribed data in
> scientific and accounting applications.

Yes. Hence the DECIMAL='COMMA' in Fortran 2003 (see the thread
title). Although, if one is still stuck in 1977 (i.e. "the past") for
ideological or whatever reasons, that won't help. ;-)

TBH, despite residing in a country that officially uses decimal
commas, I tend to use punctuation marks. And so do a lot of other
people, especially in science/engineering. I suppose mainly due to the
influence of english literature as well as english-centric software.

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Janne Blomqvist
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