Am French-Canadian, I never used commas as a decimal separator..
Always wrote it like 1 234 567.89 or 1234567.89.
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French communities I've been in when in the prairies seem to do it differently shop by shop, often mixing things together.
3,95$
$3,95
$3.95$
$3,95$
$3.95
3.95$
🇵🇪 (Peru) only uses decimal for currency
I hope NASA checks Peruvians' math before they accept their contributions to Artemis /s
Does decimal here mean (decimal) dot or do they not use decimal numbers/fractions?
Yes, they missed the word "dot" (as long as we can trust the unsourced Wikipedia list they probably used, I cannot find another English-language source confirming that). I was just kidding (as indicated by "/s").
Data on Franz-Josef land but not Svalbard
Hmm, the polar bears must do something really weird.
I'm under the impression that for Switzerland, we normally use "," (or at least for handwriting, that's how I learned to write it at least) but because of shitty locale support, people use "." on computers
Reminded of a fun story on r/HFY which the author has posted to !hfy@lemmy.world that explicitly deals with different countries using different characters to separate decimals from integers.
That story makes no sense, if you want to order 98 of something you'd write 98, not 98,000 or 98.000, no matter what decimal separater you prefer, especially for something where ordering a fraction makes no sense.
But I never put commas or points into the contract?”
Either he put 98000, or he wrote 98 and some spreadsheet autoformatter changed it to 98.000 and he never noticed because he's not supposed to be a competent character.
In the end I just took it as a fun story, but I get finding something unrealistic, it not passing your willing suspension of disbelief, and pulling you out of the story and making it hard to enjoy.
And that's why cheques and contracts also express critical numbers in words.
We write that like this: 98,- but usually in financial contexts/money. You see this used in stores to indicate rounded prices, too.