NER034@PRIME-A.TEES-POLY.AC.UK (02/22/91)
> >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. > 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"=109, in > contrast to "Billion"=1012 in german :-) ?Yes, and No. At least in Englend some of us still feal that a Billion is 1012. It is unfortunate that the American way of things is distring a good system, simply by the number or Americans there are in the world. ?There seams to be a fealing that if it's American is good. I can name a hole lode of things where this is simply not the case. ?Secondly, I take Mitch Bradleys point, that we can use the dot notation for double numbers and E for reals. In a Forth program. The new word >FLOAT has been provided to allow you to input a floating point number in whatever format you wish it to. Hence, you can define >FLOAT to accept the decimal point, decimal comma, or E notation. Depending on your fancy, or more properly in the notation that is in keeping with the vendors domestic market. ... ??If we are to stick to a line length, then can we also stop using tabs. My ?system replaces tabs with ?s so a nicly tabed document comes out left ?justified. :end of mail. Peter Knaggs +-----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+ ! School of Comp. & Maths., ! Janet: NER034 @ uk.ac.tees-poly ! ! Teesside Polytechnic, ! Bitnet: NER034 % tp.ac.uk @ UKACRL ! ! Middlesbrough, ! Internet: NER034 % tp.ac.uk @ cunyvm.cuny.edu ! ! Cleveland, England. TS1 3BA ! Uucp: NER034 % tpoly.ac.uk @ ukc.uucp ! !-----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------! ! It is not enough to do the right thing; one must also do it the right way. ! +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+