On 27.01.2019 06:54, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > On 27.01.2019 05:42, Robert Elz wrote: >> Yes, like English... I wasn't previously aware that '.' was ever used >> as the grouping char, though I did believe that some locales use a >> space for that purpose. > > I don't know whether there is formality that is followed, but in > practice people use no distinction, spaces (or some automatic distance > in font grouping numbers) or dots/commas (the other character that has > been used for radix). In computer science and some programming languages > there are used '_' (especially for hex numbers). > > One of the reasons I prefer to reduce it (at least for my own purposes) > to printing text, not parsing files. > As anglophones didn't catch it... the usage of "," is common mainly in financial use-cases. Passing to sleep 1,2 or 1.000 makes as much sense as passing to it 1000USD.
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