Re: "The" and possessives
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 29, 2001, 1:10 |
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Henrik Theiling wrote:
> I never understood why Chinese people still don't put the dots every
> *four* digits in Arabic numbers.
Because they got those numerals from the West. So, despite the
confusion I'm sure it must cause for learners, they group digits in
threes. I would think that it must make it difficult to read large
numbers.
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