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How come they reversed the dots and commas?

• thesimon 11y ago
  Not all countries use the U.S. style
• rhgraysonii 11y ago
  There are many standards for decimal notation [0]. [0]. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-0169/overview-9/index.html http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-0169/overview-9/inde...
• WildUtah 11y ago
  Lots of countries get dots and commas backward. [0] Lots of countries also drive on the wrong side [1], but the two seem to have no correlation. [0] http://www.statisticalconsultants.co.nz/blog/how-the-world-separates-its-decimals-m.html http://www.statisticalconsultants.co.nz/blog/how-the-world-s... [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic