Well, I thought I might add something here.
Do you know why the inch worm got angry?
He had to switch to the metric system.
Pastor Gil
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From: "Kim Lingo" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 10:10 AM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Change in Numeric Value Representation
I think the real questions here should be 1. how much of the rest of the
world uses different conventions than we do for large numbers? and 2. have
the countries that use different systems for large numbers been doing that
all along, or is this something recent? In other words: is this
something so widespread that WE should _have_ to adapt to this?
Kim Lingo
At 08:47 AM 6/17/2010, you wrote:
Greetings
As our world shrinks I am finding that there is a trend to adopt standards
that are not those we use here in North America. For example the way large
numbers are represented is beginning to present a challenge for me as I
see them coming up in more and more reports I am expected to review and
comment on.
For example, it is starting to appear that the practice of dropping the
comma is happening more often. This is most likely due to the fact that
many countries where English is not their first language puts spaces where
we use a comma. I know that in French, Spanish, and Portuguese the comma
is used for the decimal.
A number like 12345789 is usually written as 12,345,789. In many reports I
am getting it is now being written as:
12 345 789
At first this through me off, because I was expecting higher values. Is
there a way where I can get WE to recognize this type of convention with
respect to reading numbers?
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