Frownland

We always use decimal points to mark points where decimals are instead of commas, yes.

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MicShazam

We use the Metric system, so we win. All arbitrary, old types of measurings were thrown out somewhere around the 50's and everything was standardized into something that made sense. It's possible that the naval profession still uses things like sea miles and knots.

EDIT: Off topic by miles, I mean kilometers.

Frownland

When you get down to it 10 is an arbitrary number too you socially constructed bitch.

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MicShazam

Some arbitrary social constructs make more sense. In any case, it's nice not to have to convert things since all units easily translate to other units by simply moving the comma (sorry, "decimal point").

I hate it when english language texts refer to people's height in feet and other nonsense like that. Learn to metric, bitches.

Frownland

Say that to the man with eleven fingers.

Tbh I'm more of a descriptive unit kind of guy. "Really ****ing tall" is a lot more clear than "ten tenometers and a tenteenth."

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MicShazam

For literature, I think I'd agree. I don't need to know the exact measurements of the whole cast.

Trollheart

Me too
Um, we all use them. That's why they're called decimal points? I think it's one of the few grammatical constants on which both Americans and others agree.
Unless one of them is Raquel Welch (showing my age but come on...)

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MicShazam

When writing large numbers there's a difference in how we separate thousands. To me, writing a million as 1,000,000 looks all wrong. I'd write it as 1.000.000.
Thus, the decimal marker is also opposite.

So for the most of the world, one million point ninety nine would be written as 1,000,000.99 and becomes 1.000.000,99 in Danish. This is one area where we're admittedly backwards. There's been talk of changing the rules since school children are using technology with international notation these days.

I'm only faintly taller than her.

Trollheart

No. That would be one. With a lot of zeroes behind it. I've never heard of anyone use commas instead of decimal points. Commas for thousands and up, decimal points for any sort of fraction. I never remember it being any other way.
That is of course what I was referring to.

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Frownland

Don't worry TH, it's a real thing.

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