On Thu, 15 May 2003, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
SR> In french thousand are separated by a space, and not by a dot.
Oh. Didn't know that :)
More details you didn't know: Finnish separates thousands with a space (in ConTeXt I'd use "\," to make this space, I guess - haven't written anything real in Finnish yet) and uses comma for decimals. The recommendation for Swedish is exactly the same: groups of three and a decimal comma. i.e. 1 000 000 (one million) 6 000,3 (six thousand and three tenths) Use in Norwegian is not so clear, but space seems to be the recommended option.
SR> That would be great ! (and in case of need, frenchies are SR> using sin, cos and tan ;-) )
Good to know :)
Finnish uses these "standard" versions, too, and as far as I know, so do all the Scandinavian languages. I haven't actively studied math in other than my mother tongue... My ten eurocents, Mari from Finland