I don't live in Europe but yes, Europeans use the opposite symbols for
the radix point and number separators. many of the HP calculators had flags
that you could set that would cause the the two symbols to switch. I think
it's just European convention and has nothing to do with the metric system.
Sort of like some countries drive on the left of the road and some drive on
the right. BTW I lived in Thailand and got used to driving on the LH side
of the road with no problem but I had a hell of a time switching back the
right when I returned to the US!
Joe
At 06:19 AM 2/20/04 -0800, you wrote:
>For those of you in Europe: Is there some sort of formalized convention on
the usage of a comma to separate integers from decimals in a number?
>I wonder if it has something to do with using SI units. I say this because
I have a digital caliper that when switched to millimeters, it changes the
decimal point to a comma.
>Here in the US as you know it is more prevalent the use of the decimal
point and the comma to separate the thousands, as in $1,000.00
>I can see the practicality of using a decimal comma as it is less probable
to be a printing mistake compared to the decimal point.
>This must be a pain to Casio making different calculators for the US and
Europe.
>By the way, I am a metric freak, which my AutoCAD friends here at work do
not appreciate, however I can't see myself going to the decimal comma. It
just seems unnatural, like driving on the left side of the road (joke by
the way).
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