Comment by multjoy 7 months ago How can "which is the larger number" be an ambiguous question? 7 comments multjoy Reply Zerot 7 months ago Which is the bigger version number? Version 9.9 or version 9.11? Which is the bigger dollar amount? $9.9 or $9.11?Periods are not always used for the decimal separator but also as a separator for multiple sets of semi-independent numbers. umanwizard 7 months ago I have never seen someone write $9.09 as $9.9. What country is this common in? Zerot 7 months ago None. That is the point. 9.9 can be both bigger or smaller than 9.11 depending on context samrus 7 months ago if someone says "which is the bigger number" with no context you wont assume software version number, lets be real herealso $9.9 is clearly 9 dollars and 90 cents. com2kid 7 months ago As everyone else has said, semver. I use semver so often that my initial reading of 9.9 < 9.11 in a Hacker News comment would evaluate to true. acrooks 7 months ago There are some contexts where 9.11 is larger than 9.9, such as semver, so it could be ambiguous depending on the context. mwigdahl 7 months ago Larger in magnitude or in count of digits?
Zerot 7 months ago Which is the bigger version number? Version 9.9 or version 9.11? Which is the bigger dollar amount? $9.9 or $9.11?Periods are not always used for the decimal separator but also as a separator for multiple sets of semi-independent numbers. umanwizard 7 months ago I have never seen someone write $9.09 as $9.9. What country is this common in? Zerot 7 months ago None. That is the point. 9.9 can be both bigger or smaller than 9.11 depending on context samrus 7 months ago if someone says "which is the bigger number" with no context you wont assume software version number, lets be real herealso $9.9 is clearly 9 dollars and 90 cents.
umanwizard 7 months ago I have never seen someone write $9.09 as $9.9. What country is this common in? Zerot 7 months ago None. That is the point. 9.9 can be both bigger or smaller than 9.11 depending on context
Zerot 7 months ago None. That is the point. 9.9 can be both bigger or smaller than 9.11 depending on context
samrus 7 months ago if someone says "which is the bigger number" with no context you wont assume software version number, lets be real herealso $9.9 is clearly 9 dollars and 90 cents.
com2kid 7 months ago As everyone else has said, semver. I use semver so often that my initial reading of 9.9 < 9.11 in a Hacker News comment would evaluate to true.
acrooks 7 months ago There are some contexts where 9.11 is larger than 9.9, such as semver, so it could be ambiguous depending on the context.
Which is the bigger version number? Version 9.9 or version 9.11? Which is the bigger dollar amount? $9.9 or $9.11?
Periods are not always used for the decimal separator but also as a separator for multiple sets of semi-independent numbers.
I have never seen someone write $9.09 as $9.9. What country is this common in?
None. That is the point. 9.9 can be both bigger or smaller than 9.11 depending on context
if someone says "which is the bigger number" with no context you wont assume software version number, lets be real here
also $9.9 is clearly 9 dollars and 90 cents.
As everyone else has said, semver. I use semver so often that my initial reading of 9.9 < 9.11 in a Hacker News comment would evaluate to true.
There are some contexts where 9.11 is larger than 9.9, such as semver, so it could be ambiguous depending on the context.
Larger in magnitude or in count of digits?