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Cultural differences or language differences?

Posted By: Casper van der Tak
Date: Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 6:47 a.m.

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

If I write English, I use the decimal point; in any other European language (Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, German) the decimal comma. If Chinese use our numbers (usually they don't and work with multiples of 10,000, 1,000,000 etc, each represented by Chinese characters), they use the English / American convention (if I recall correctly).

I drop the zero when it is clear from the context otherwise I keep it.

Messages In This Thread

• Standardizing match score notation
  Jason Lee -- Monday, 3 May 2010, at 10:01 p.m.
  • Standardizing match score notation
    John O'Hagan -- Monday, 3 May 2010, at 10:37 p.m.
  • Standardizing match score notation
    Klaus Evers -- Monday, 3 May 2010, at 10:37 p.m.
    • Standardizing match score notation
      Stick -- Monday, 3 May 2010, at 10:38 p.m.
    • Standardizing match score notation
      Jason Lee -- Monday, 3 May 2010, at 10:51 p.m.
      • Standardizing match score notation
        Tom Keith -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 1:53 p.m.
    • Standardizing match score notation
      mamabear -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 1:54 a.m.
      • Standardizing match score notation
        Stick -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 2:46 a.m.
    • putting a zero ahead of a decimal point
      Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 1:33 p.m.
      • putting a zero ahead of a decimal point.... cultural differences
        Klaus Evers -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 8:31 p.m.
        • putting a zero ahead of a decimal point.... cultural differences
          mtuhtan -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 8:39 p.m.
          • putting a zero ahead of a decimal point.... cultural differences
            Klaus Evers -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 9:00 p.m.
          • putting a zero ahead of a decimal point.... cultural differences
            Nack Ballard -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 5:19 a.m.
            • putting a zero ahead of a decimal point.... cultural differences
              Jason Lee -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 5:52 a.m.
              • putting a zero ahead of a decimal point.... cultural differences
                Bob Koca -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 6:10 p.m.
                • putting a zero ahead of a decimal point.... cultural differences
                  Bob Koca -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 6:12 p.m.
                  • putting a zero ahead of a decimal point.... cultural differences
                    Daniel Murphy -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 8:36 p.m.
                    • putting a zero ahead of a decimal point.... cultural differences
                      Chase -- Thursday, 6 May 2010, at 12:33 a.m.
                      • putting a zero ahead of a decimal point.... cultural differences
                        Bob Koca -- Thursday, 6 May 2010, at 1:55 a.m.
                        • putting a zero ahead of a decimal point.... cultural differences
                          Nack Ballard -- Thursday, 6 May 2010, at 3:24 a.m.
                        • putting a zero ahead of a decimal point.... cultural differences
                          Casper van der Tak -- Thursday, 6 May 2010, at 5:56 a.m.
            • Cultural differences or language differences?
              Casper van der Tak -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 6:47 a.m.
              • Cultural differences or language differences?
                Nack Ballard -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 8:20 a.m.
        • putting a zero ahead of a decimal point.... cultural differences
          Chuck Bower -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 2:14 a.m.
      • large errors for lack of following convention
        garyo -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 5:54 a.m.
        • large errors for lack of following convention
          Nack Ballard -- Wednesday, 5 May 2010, at 6:23 a.m.
  • Standardizing match score notation
    Stick -- Monday, 3 May 2010, at 10:43 p.m.
    • Standardizing match score notation
      Jason Lee -- Monday, 3 May 2010, at 10:53 p.m.
      • Standardizing match score notation
        Stick -- Monday, 3 May 2010, at 10:57 p.m.
        • Standardizing match score notation
          Jason Lee -- Monday, 3 May 2010, at 11:00 p.m.
          • Standardizing match score notation
            Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 4:00 a.m.
            • Standardizing match score notation
              Nack Ballard -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 4:21 a.m.
            • Standardizing match score notation
              Jason Lee -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 4:53 a.m.
          • Standardizing match score notation
            Gregg Cattanach -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 6:39 p.m.
  • Standardizing match score notation
    Joe Russell -- Monday, 3 May 2010, at 10:46 p.m.
  • Standardizing match score notation
    Chase -- Monday, 3 May 2010, at 11:25 p.m.
    • Standardizing match score notation
      Jason Lee -- Monday, 3 May 2010, at 11:50 p.m.
  • Standardizing match score notation
    Daniel Murphy -- Monday, 3 May 2010, at 11:33 p.m.
  • Standardizing match score notation
    Matt Cohn-Geier -- Monday, 3 May 2010, at 11:34 p.m.
    • Standardizing match score notation
      Matt Cohn-Geier -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 2:57 a.m.
      • Standardizing match score notation
        Nack Ballard -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 3:55 a.m.
        • Standardizing match score notation
          Chase -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 4:38 a.m.
          • Ah -- thanks! *NM*
            Nack Ballard -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 5:17 a.m.
  • Standardizing match score notation
    Nack Ballard -- Tuesday, 4 May 2010, at 12:55 a.m.