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putting a zero ahead of a decimal point.... cultural differences

Posted By: Jason Lee
Date: Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 5:52 a.m.

In Response To: putting a zero ahead of a decimal point.... cultural differences (Nack Ballard)

In the U.S., we also (optionally) put a zero before the decimal, though there has been a major shift towards omitting it in the last thirty or forty years.

I guess I never really thought about it. I usually put the zero before the decimal point, but I have no recollection of anybody teaching me one way or another.

(Old timers like me might also remember our teachers harping on us to double-space after periods and colons; now, single-spacing is standard.)

Ugh, am I an old timer now? I had a typing class as a freshman in high school -- learned on an electric typewriter, but not a computer -- and the teacher made us put two spaces after periods and colons. I still do it, and probably can't change my ways now... it would feel funny.

JLee

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