13:23 Jun 4, 2011
Although the magnificently practical SI system of units has been adopted by all countries except Burma, Liberia and the USA, there is still, amazingly, no agreement on the very confusing decimal comma or decimal point. To some extent the French get round this (at least in text) by separating thousands with a space (eg ie 413 195), but this is no good for mathematical software, which generally only recognises a decimal point (unless specifically told otherwise to recognise a comma). |