Re: conplaneteering

Quoting Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>:

> Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:02:32PM +0100, Carsten Becker wrote:
> >
> >>Why can't you Anglophones not simply change to comma like
> >>the rest of the world?
> >>(This was a rethorical question.)
> >
> > Is it really an Anglophone thing?  I thought the decimal comma and
> > thousands-period were in use in the UK, too.
>
> Lord, no! Strictly speaking, it's a raised dot that's used in the
> anglophone world, but with the rise of typewriters and, later,
> computer, that became a full-stop.
>
> I wish people'd use the raised dot more.
Here, it's a decimal comma, and spaces separating the groups of three letters.

In my personal notes, I tend to use a decimal dot, however; it's more practical
when you're spearating multiple values in a vector or function argument with
commas, and also when listing nummerical values.

                                                     Andreas