commas and dots in figures

German translation: 63,5 and 1.500

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German term or phrase:	63,5 and 1.500
Selected answer:	63,5 and 1.500
Entered by:	Ana Hermida

19:54 Sep 18, 2003

German language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Tech/Engineering

German term or phrase: commas and dots in figures

Which one is it well written in German: 63.5 mm or 63,5 mm (with dot or comma)? And how about 1,500 and 1.500 (one thousand and five hundred)?

Thank you very much.

Ana Hermida KudoZ activity Questions: 64 (2 open) Answers: 221 Spain
Local time: 09:27

with a comma

Explanation:
63,5 and 1.500

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the latter with a period

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z.B. EUR 1.234.567,85

Selected response from:

L. Russell Jones
Local time: 09:27

Grading comment

I've given the points to L. Russell Jones because he has just a few KudoZ and he's given the right answer in time, but has had a mistake in the title of the answer. Thanks to both (Klaus and Russell)!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

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5 +3

63,5 and 1.500

Klaus Herrmann

4 +2

with a comma

L. Russell Jones

commas and points

Jirina Nevosadova

Answers

5 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

63,5 and 1.500

Explanation:
The comma is used to indicate decimals, so 63,5 is the right way to say 63 and a half millimeters. Accordingly, 1.500 is fifteenhundred and 1.500 is 1½.

Klaus Herrmann
Germany
Local time: 09:27
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in pair: 454

3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

with a comma

L. Russell Jones
Local time: 09:27
Native speaker of:

German,

English

Grading comment

11 mins confidence:

commas and points

Explanation:
Comma is sometimes used between thousands and hundreds. Point is used between integral number and decimal number.
1,500 one thousand five hundred
5.25 five point two five or
0.3 oh (or zero) point three.
You write a fullstop after a sentence. Dot is a a small round mark (can be printed). See polka - dot pattern on a skirt or a sentence:
The helicopters appeared as two small dots on the sky. (Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary). Ref: 20 years of teaching English.

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Sorry, I did not notice that you asked for German explanation, not English one.

Jirina Nevosadova
Czech Republic
Local time: 09:27
Native speaker of:

Czech

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