gigabecquerelHave I ever mentioned how much I hate the comma as decimal separator?
And don't get me started on a dot as 1000s separator
Sylke Krämer@gigabecquerel what I hate much more is this:
UK DE
million Million
billion Milliarde
trillion Billion
@gigabecquerel at least the dots and comma thing is consistent. But with the different naming conventions for the big numbers I’m doubting them every time when they come up in a news article because I don’t know whether the author knows about that difference. 🥴
@sylkeweb Oh, absolutely, 100% fuck that.
It always takes me an unreasonable amount of time to "translate" that
It always takes me an unreasonable amount of time to "translate" that