You got me thinking of a VTAM guy I worked with who was originally from
Taiwan. He often had to think a bit when working with large numbers,
and I remember he said where he came from the large ones were separated
by 10,000 instead of 1000.
On 3/30/2023 5:05 PM, Jay Maynard wrote:
It's even weirder than that: it would be written 11 84 89 088. (Or with
commas instead of spaces.) Look up the words "lakh" and "crore".
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 6:43 PM Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote:
What, you mean like 1 18 48 90 88? Yeah, you'd think that would be
confusing when trying to think of it as 113MB.
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Yes. Some sources say blanks as thousands separators are recognised
internationally, especially in Europe. I wouldn't go that far, but I've
seen it in the wild in a few places around Europe.
The pairs of digits between commas in India were the biggest surprise to
me, so far.
--- On Thu, 30 Mar 2023, 22:04 Bob Bridges, <[email protected]> wrote:
Spaces, really? I thought I was the only one who'd adopted that. I
first saw it suggested by Isaac Asimov, but no one else seems to have
got the memo.
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