On 2013-03-10, Richard Wordingham <[email protected]> wrote: > The question is what users will demand. Expectations have been low > enough that the loss of decimal points has been accepted. > Additionally, striving for an apparently hard to get raised decimal > point risks being forced to use an achievable decimal comma.
It's also true, isn't it, that even in Britain the raised point has been discouraged in scientific contexts for a long time? I can't find a reference right now, but I think IUPAC and IUPAP prefer a low point; and my science textbooks, even from the 60s, use a low point - whereas some of my maths textbooks from the 70s use a raised point (at half M-height), which now looks odd to me, because I use the mid-point multiplication a lot in my work. But my son's school is still teaching a raised point in hand-writing. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
