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submitted 3 months ago by Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz

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[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The map is wrong in that regard anyway, because quite a lot of languages/countries actually use a space or half-space as a thousand separator.

[–] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The map doesn't mention a thousand separator...

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

But it shows areas and how numbers are suposedly formatted in those areas and those numbers have thousand separators.

[–] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

But it specifically only talks about separating the integer from the decimal. How can it be wrong about something it doesn't talk about at all?

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago

Not to mention that the Arabic world writes numbers with their own script:

۱٬۲۳٤٬٥٦۷٫۸۹

(Yes, that's the official thousands separator U+060C and the official decimal separator U+060B and they do look suspisciously similar.)

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

Especially pointing at Russia... They couldn't even look at the Examples section of the Wikipedia article they obviously used.