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~~Eastern~~ Most Europeans who use
,as a decimal point will only receive fifteen euros.You're counting Germany as eastern Europe?
And France
And The Netherlands
And Sweden
And Denmark
The only Europeans that use the
.as a decimal separator are the British and present and former colonies.All continental Europe except Gibraltar use the
,, and consequently so do most of Africa and South America.Wikipedia has a great map for this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Conventions_worldwide
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This map largely overlaps a map of The British Empire, doesn't it?
How come they managed to get data for Greenland?
Because enough of the people who live there answered the question? 🤷
I think, it was a joke, because Greenland is often marked as "No data available" on such maps, for not really any good reason...
Yeah I know, my reply was a "false ignorance" joke itself 😁
Damn, that fancy Arabic comma is looking sweeeeet
I love how maps like this basically are just maps of historical conquest
We really need to pick one and go with it.
This is upsetting haha
Yeah, I do greatly enjoy pulling out this map whenever someone says "only those weirdos in <region/language> do it the other way around". Nono, it's actually a pretty even split. 🙃
I get using a comma as a radix, sure. It makes grammatical sense, like saying "two, and three tenths", just a little pause between concepts.
But how does it make any sense anywhere to use a full-stop for grouping digits?! "1.000.000.000.000" looks ludicrous, not to mention we can't even agree on whether thats a billion or a million!
It doesn't make grammatical sense, but in a typesetting and writing sense it checks out – comma is the larger of the two symbols
So, Americans?
Nah it's most more of the world than just Americans this time