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From: celms@vim.ARPA (Dr. Aivars Celmins )
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: American vs. European numerical usage
Summary: Old standard
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Date: 19 Aug 88 19:57:02 GMT
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Reply-To: celms@brl.mil (Dr. Aivars Celmins (VLD/GSB) <celms>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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  An international standard for writing of numbers was adopted
  1948 by the 9-th General Conference of Weights and Measures.
  (This is the organization which defines standards of units).
  The corresponding resolution states:

    "In numbers, the comma (French practice) or the dot (British
     practice) are used only to separate the integral part of
     numbers from the decimal part.  Numbers may be divided in
     goups of three in order to facilitate reading; neither
     dots nor commas are ever inserted in the spaces between
     groups."

  See NBS Special Publication 330, 1972 and all subsequent
  NBS publications about the use of the International
  System of Units (SI).

  Obviously, the journal editor mentioned in a previous posting
  was following this standard.
                                     AC