On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:22:14 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph B. Reid) wrote: > >I think it was the typewriter that did in the half-high point as the >decimal marker. However, the (British) National Physical Laboratory >version of the metric bible has the decimal marker as the dot on the line. >The British and American metric standards retain the halt-high dot as the >sign of multiplication, as in the symbol for newton metre: N.m The Telegraph papers still insist on using the point in the air, as does (even more annoyingly) the IEE. The German supermarket chain has a local store, and its tills and receipts use the comma decimal. Chris -- UK Metrication Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
