Market Meltdown, Dow crashing!

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Faxanadu said:

Wagram said:

Faxanadu said:

djanikowski said:

DirtyP2002 said:

Now some other states:

USA: 12.307 billion USD

 

 

More like 12.9 Trillion USD

Ah yes, the great misconceptions of humanity, or why life is different across the great pond.

 

Why do Americans have to use feet and not meters, why do they use . instead of , and vice versa in numbers?

 

because we like to make things complicated for you specifically. and to make you ask questions. :D

See, DirtyP was right and then this American comes in and corrects him only because he (the American) is ignorant of international standards for numbers.

It is so very sad.

I think the problem was actually that, in the original post, the European numbers were listed with commas, while the others were listed with points. Seeing as it was all in the same sentence, that gives the impression that the "," in the European countries was to symbolise thousands, while the "." in the US, was to symbolise fractions of billions.

You can use "," or "." to symbolise thousands, but never use both in the same post.

 

"USA: 12.307 billion USD"
"Germany: 1,700 billion EUR
France: 1,489 billion EUR "

 

You see the issue there? It's not about which way is the "correct" way of doing it (because it varies depending on location), the problem was the lack of consistency.