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[–] 16 points 3 months ago (6 children)

(the comma is a decimal point)

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    A small, but important detail. :D I always try to use the correct decimal separator for the unit.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Some years back, I had a friend who had lived in Germany for some time who came to the US and did a cash transfer without thinking at an ATM and couldn't figure out at first why her account got frozen. She'd used a comma instead of a period when entering the amount of money to be moved.

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  • [+] -7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    I would love to see information about why some countries do that.

    It's called a point.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It is called a decimal separator. Should be obvious why languages that use a point for it would call it "decimal point". Other languages refer to it as comma.

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