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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!kithrup.com!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!nntp.primenet.com!newspump.sol.net!news.mindspring.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!yama.mcc.ac.uk!liv!lucs!news From: rkl@csc.liv.ac.uk (Richard Lloyd) Subject: Decimal point (Was: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server?) Message-ID: <Dy6q6K.3ux@csc.liv.ac.uk> Sender: rkl@loire.csc.liv.ac.uk (Richard Lloyd) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 12:18:20 GMT Lines: 17 References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <DxzAw5.EEG@interactive.net> <32413ece.157716099@news6.erols.com> <32414673.3BEF@metrosol.demon.co.uk> <51pog8$1gj@newsbr.eunet.fr> <Dy0K58.MLv@zorch.sf-bay.org> <32423719.6904CE4@julia.de> <51uo7m$bu9@magic.metawire.com> <3244780C.23B6AB75@aug.com> <52400f$t6r@topeka.cjnetworks.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: rkl@loire.csc.liv.ac.uk Organization: Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.4 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:131067 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27788 comp.infosystems.www.misc:43980 In article <52400f$t6r@topeka.cjnetworks.com>, tdsmith@topeka.cjnetworks.com writes: >Yup. It's a dot. The US is one of the few places on Earth, AFAIK, that >uses a comma as a thousands separator and a period for decimal. Funny, I thought it was the other way around (i.e. Germany was one of the few places - along with France - to use , as a "decimal point" and vice versa to separate thousands). In the UK, we use the same as the US (70,000.12 for example) - it stops my UK lottery pages (http://www.connect.org.uk/lottery/) looking weird anyway :-) Richard K. Lloyd, E-mail: rkl@csc.liv.ac.uk Connect, WWW: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/users/rkl/ 5-31, Great Newton St, Liverpool University, Merseyside, UK. L69 3BX