Re: commas

From	Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: commas
Date	2012-06-12 16:14 +0100
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Paul Herber wrote:

> Be aware that in some locales the comma is used as the decimal seperator
> instead of the thousands seperator.

This is true.  It is also one of the most annoying features that found their 
way to some particularly popular software packages, particularly when 
different interpretations of what a comma is supposed to represent lead to 
silent conversions between formats, which in turn introduce numerical errors 
which are measured in several orders of magnitude.

Rui Maciel

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commas bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-06-12 07:09 -0700
  Re: commas Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-12 09:16 -0500
    Re: commas BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-12 09:53 -0500
    Re: commas "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-06-12 16:33 +0100
  Re: commas Paul Herber <paul@pherber.com> - 2012-06-12 15:37 +0100
    Re: commas Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-06-12 16:14 +0100
  Re: commas "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-06-12 16:37 +0100
    Re: commas Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-06-12 17:10 +0100
  Re: commas Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-06-12 09:32 -0700
    Re: commas Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> - 2012-06-12 09:54 -0700
    Re: commas "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-06-12 18:05 +0100
      Re: commas Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-06-12 11:51 -0700
        Re: commas "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-06-12 20:36 +0100
          Re: commas Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-06-12 16:28 -0700
  Re: commas Thad Smith <ThadSmith@acm.org> - 2012-06-17 22:38 -0600
    Re: commas Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-18 00:02 -0500
      Re: commas blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com> - 2012-07-06 19:01 +0000
  Re: commas Jongware <jongware@no-spam.plz> - 2012-07-30 15:53 +0200
    Re: commas "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-07-30 15:50 +0100
      Re: commas "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-08-01 01:56 +0100
        Re: commas Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-08-01 03:31 +0100
    Re: commas rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2012-07-30 19:57 +0100
    Re: commas Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201207.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2012-07-30 22:14 +0200
      Re: commas Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-07-30 23:00 +0100

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