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I mistakenly think the guy took over a year to boot Linux/4004 due to the comma in the post title. (I was aware that comma represents decimal point in some reg
by hsfzxjy 2y ago
I mistakenly think the guy took over a year to boot Linux/4004 due to the comma in the post title.
(I was aware that comma represents decimal point in some regions, just didn't get this in the first place.)
- wobfan 2y agoAlso the comma would be after 3 digits, no? Like 1,000 and 100?
- hsfzxjy 2y agoTruly. But at first sight I couldn't parse the comma as anything else except a delimiter :(
- USiBqidmOOkAqRb 2y agoCheck out what they do in India[a]. It's not beyond the realm of possibility to misremember it exactly. a: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousands_separator#Examples_of_use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousands_separator#Examples_o...
- codetiger 2y agoYes, in India we use 3 places for the first and then 2 places for the rest. But comma was never a thing. Fun fact: In India we use upto Crore as mentioned in the link, but recently had to learn upto Lakh Crore as the politicians looted bigger recently and went beyond normal. :)
- mykowebhn 2y agoCommas are used for the decimal point instead of the period character in many countries, including many European countries.
- atemerev 2y agoWe do, but most of software engineers out there hate it and use the dot, for obvious reasons (CSV in particular). Having said that, I like our Swiss decimal group delimiter: 1'000'000.
- jbarberu 2y agoI'm from one of those European countries and still also read it as it taking over a year to boot...
- asplake 2y agoUnless the title is internationalised somehow (possible, but I doubt it), it's "4.76" in the original article. That's what happens when submitters editorialise ;-)