Timeline for Historical origin of commas and periods in numbers
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| May 10 at 17:55 | history | edited | Arunabh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 10 at 17:54 | comment | added | shoover | USA has not switched to using comma for the decimal. Why did you put that? | |
| Jan 17 at 22:14 | history | edited | Arunabh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 4, 2023 at 13:59 | history | edited | Arunabh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 3, 2023 at 12:50 | comment | added | mdewey | Note that as edited this is not correct as the UK is in Europe but uses the decimal point not the decimal comma. | |
| May 3, 2023 at 1:32 | history | edited | Arunabh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 12, 2022 at 19:11 | vote | accept | Arunabh | ||
| Feb 11, 2022 at 21:37 | answer | added | uUnwY | timeline score: 13 | |
| Feb 11, 2022 at 21:18 | comment | added | uUnwY | Note that resolution 10 of the 22nd CGPM in 2003 defines that either a comma or a point can be used as decimal marker, but only a space as a separator for groups of three digits. This is exactly to avoid confusion; 1.111 or 1,111 can only mean a decimal number, but it can never mean 1111. See bipm.org/documents/20126/33145759/CGPM22.pdf/… | |
| Feb 11, 2022 at 20:37 | history | asked | Arunabh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |