From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Subject: Re: decimal separator (international?
Date: 22 Oct 2004 21:29:51 +0200
Date: 2004-10-22T21:29:51+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pl4qkmtuts.fsf@sparre.crs4.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bkon42-tg4.ln1@news.naggum.no
Erik Naggum wrote:
> Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> > And it is not correct for Switzerland, I'd say.
> > 123'456.89
> > Yes, '.
> The English usage of ' and " for inches and feet, and usage of
> ' and " for minutes and seconds are sufficiently disambiguated from
> such numbers that I believe no normal reader would consider the
> possibility of a new ambiguity in these cases.
I have seen both �degrees'minutes.decimals� and
�degrees'minutes"seconds.decimals�, so I wouldn't bet on it.
Jacob
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2004-10-22 10:20 ` decimal separator (international? Peter Hermann
2004-10-22 13:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-10-22 16:20 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-22 19:29 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2004-10-22 20:45 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-23 18:54 ` Chris Kaese
2004-10-25 10:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-10-29 9:52 ` Stefan L�rchner
2004-10-29 9:59 ` Adrien Plisson
2004-10-29 10:23 ` Julian Bradfield
2004-10-29 11:22 ` Markus Kuhn
2004-10-29 12:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-29 13:43 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-29 13:55 ` Julian Bradfield
2004-10-29 15:05 ` Erik Naggum
2004-10-29 15:29 ` Julian Bradfield
2004-10-30 12:15 ` Binary prefixes in Google's calculator Markus Kuhn
2004-10-30 14:23 ` Binary prefixes and decimal separators " Björn Persson
2004-10-29 12:58 ` decimal separator (international? Peter Hermann
2004-10-29 14:41 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-29 15:15 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-10-29 15:48 ` Peter Hermann
2004-10-29 16:31 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-10-29 19:18 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-11-01 10:14 ` Anders Wirzenius
2004-11-01 18:53 ` Octal number system Andrew Nowicki
2004-11-01 21:47 ` Björn Persson
2004-11-02 1:04 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-29 16:09 ` decimal separator (international? Andreas Prilop
2004-10-30 9:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-29 14:21 ` Gee Pee (was: decimal separator (international?) Christoph Paeper
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