Please fix (dot in "12.000")

[nipuna]

Does the Maemo community only have 12 registered members? According to the link below:
http://maemo.org/intro/community/

that is the case. Can one of the web admins please please fix this?

"By end of May 2008, the Maemo community included over 12.000 registered members"

[GeneralAntilles]

It's technically correct, but as we generally target en_US on the website it should probably be changed.

Although that introduction will likely be replaced by a more up-to-date and accurate one shortly.

[lardman]

many British and Canadian schools now teach the SI style with a dot separator, which has become official in Australia.

Hmm, I've never seen a . used where a , should be (. is for the decimal place I hasten to add for the Europeans), not in the UK nor in Australia, but perhaps it's just another way of confusing children?

[benny1967]

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
it has a nice map, too, showing how the decimal separator is used. the digit group separator is something different, but you can assume that it is never the same as the decimal separator, so the map gives an indication of where, say, a "," is not used as a digit group separator

I for example am used to writing 40679,5 for 40679 and a half.
I can deal with 40.679,5

40,679.5 makes my brain stutter, and 40,679 without the ".5" is clearly "40 and a little more than a half" to me - when I first read it. Only when I realize that this can't be (because, for example, a community can't have "40 and a little more than a half" members), I switch to foreign mode... which is a bit like reading words letter by letter for me.

[lardman]

Eventually we'll have to start writing all numbers with both a . and a , in them to avoid confusion. E.g.

0,040.5 or 0.040,5

[benny1967]

dont forget that there's regions where a space is used as a digit group separator instead of , or .

[qgil]

Thanks. Dot removed. Please move on.

[TrueJournals]

Originally Posted by lardman

Eventually we'll have to start writing all numbers with both a . and a , in them to avoid confusion. E.g.

0,040.5 or 0.040,5

Wait. What?

[lardman]

Wait. What?

Ok so that example wasn't too good, try this instead:

0,040.563 (for the Imperialists amongst us)

or

0.040,563 (for the metric bunch)

Thanks. Dot removed. Please move on.

/me sees Obi Wan Kenobi talking to inquisitive Storm Troopers

[TrueJournals]

That's even worse :P You're either adding digit group separators in the decimal place or putting extra zeros on the left end, and using the digit group separator. O_o