Comment by Sharparam
8 days ago
This is why space is the only acceptable thousands/grouping separator (a non-breaking space when possible). Avoids any confusion.
8 days ago
This is why space is the only acceptable thousands/grouping separator (a non-breaking space when possible). Avoids any confusion.
Space is also confusing! Then it looks like two separate numbers.
Underscore (_) is already used as a decimal separator in programming languages and Mathematics should just adopt it, IMO.
A competing format to simplify things?
A competing format that is understandable to probably everybody.
An ISO 8601 date is also comprehensible to anybody even if they never seen it before and have to figure it out themselves.
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https://xkcd.com/927/
You mean thousands separator, yes? Agreed, it’s annoying when languages don’t have this feature.
Ah yes, thousands separator.
A thin non-breaking space also clears up the confusion without the visual clutter of the underscore. It's just inconvenient to use
The problem is our primitive text representation online. The formatting should be localized but there’s not a number type I can easily insert inline in a text box.
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