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This question may be too basic for some folks, but I am a bit confused by the fact that some/most of European countries seem to delimit numbers every two/three digit using a period instead of using a comma.
For example, what would be the equivalent number of 100.00,00 Euros without taking the foreign exchange rates into consideration if it was followed by the US decimal notation system? Would that be 10,000.00 dollars? Could anyone also tell... See more
Hi to all.
This question may be too basic for some folks, but I am a bit confused by the fact that some/most of European countries seem to delimit numbers every two/three digit using a period instead of using a comma.
For example, what would be the equivalent number of 100.00,00 Euros without taking the foreign exchange rates into consideration if it was followed by the US decimal notation system? Would that be 10,000.00 dollars? Could anyone also tell me which European countries delimit numbers every \"two\" digit?
Thank you in advance.
satnii
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Ralf Lemster Germany Local time: 09:01 English to German + ...
English vs. non-English
Feb 12, 2003
Hi Satnii,
I\'m not sure about all European languages, but in German and French texts the notation is:
xxx.xxx,xx - e.g. 123.456,78
whereas in the UK you would use
xxx,xxx.xx - e.g. 123,456.78
HTH - Ralf
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I just would like to add that Spanish works the same way as French and German.
Regards.
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Dyran Altenburg (X) United States Local time: 03:01 English to Spanish + ...
Not really
Feb 16, 2003
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On 2003-02-15 10:40, RTR wrote:
I just would like to add that Spanish works the same way as French and German.
About half of the Spanish speaking countries use the US/UK method.
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Tom Ellett (X) Local time: 08:01 Norwegian to English + ...
Use a space every three digits
Feb 20, 2003
To prevent any ambiguity, you can use a (non-breaking) space as the thousands separator and either a period or a comma (depending on the language) as a decimal point.
Example:
123 456.00 (English)
123 456,00 (most other European languages)
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