That because we English do it that way. The rest of the Europe, Germany
and France for instance, seem to like inserting a comma instead!
:-D
David
KG4ZLB
On 4/21/2010 18:45, Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote:
Agreed.
The only thing, other than for times and dates, that I write between numbers is
a decimal point.
Commas and dots to split numbers into groups of three have no use.
OK, I might write 5 megawatts as 5E6 watts.
On 21-Apr-10 22:22, i8cvs wrote:
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