BYC Café

[Sally PB]

Is it the decimal point versus comma thing?

 

[LaFleche]

Is it the decimal point versus comma thing?

Exactly.

 

[sourland]

Is it the decimal point versus comma thing?

They've confused me.

 

[Sally PB]

If I remember German from college correctly, they use a comma as we use a decimal point in numbers. For big numbers (over 5 digits, I think), they put a small space every three digits like we put commas. 9,5 would be 9 and a half. (9.5)
123 456 789 would be 123,456,789.

I think. College was a long time ago. But I can still hear Herr Kobernick's voice in my head.

 

[aart]

To avoid any confusion, I should have written it like this:

1.780,00 grams

1,780.00 is how I would write it....or just 1780g.....which would be 1.780 kg

 

[DobieLover]

Tonya, I'm so sorry that Seneca isn't going to make it, especially after everything you've done to try to save her.

Thanks. It's the best for all involved.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Well heck okay cheese cake is in the fridge cooling more ..
I guess I burned a finger on my left hand on the stove this morning

 

[ShrekDawg]

Well heck okay cheese cake is in the fridge cooling more ..
I guess I burned a finger on my left hand on the stove this morning

Cheesecake!? Where!?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Tonya just know you have done everything you could to save her

 

[bruceha2000]

sexagesimal

Um, no thanks! I did binary, octal, decimal and hexadecimal when I was working. That is plenty I think.

...inches, feet, oz....

Yeah, well besides generally not being able to learn more than English, apparently Americans (meaning USA) can't learn metric either. We were SUPPOSEDLY going to switch over maybe 50 years ago. Nothing like fixing something that has a combination of English and Metric nuts and bolts.

To avoid any confusion, I should have written it like this:

1.780,00 grams

I PROBABLY would have figured that out. Somewhere in the far dusty reaches of my brain I did know that some countries use that designation. Odd that the USA system is the reverse using the same characters.

So what do YOU call the "." character when it is used in numbers? Here we call it a decimal point (for obvious reasons).

Cheesecake!? Where!?

Gee Kelsey, REAL sympathetic of you!!