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From: uh@informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de (Ulrich Hoffmann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: 0.0 - DP or FP?
Message-ID: <2395@batman.informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de>
Date: 19 Feb 91 14:45:13 GMT
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Organization: Universitaet Kiel, Germany
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In <6867570@harvee.UUCP> esj@harvee.UUCP (Eric S Johansson) writes:

>Correct me if I am wrong but I believe the US uses 1,000.00 to represent one
>thousand while in europe they use 1.000,00 for the same value.

Right!

In german the decimal point is a "Dezimal-Komma".

That's one of the first things our kids in Germany have to learn about numbers
in english. (The other one is the billion, which is "Milliarde"=10^9, in contrast
to "Billion"=10^12 in german :-)




Ulrich Hoffmann
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