Reviving an old thread here, I scanned through this discussion about time and date formats, postal codes, etc. and realized that there is one other area we didn't cover earlier.
Here in Britain, along with just about every other English-speaking country, we use a period as a decimal point, e.g. 12.5 for twelve-and-a-half. We also commonly use a comma as a thousands separator, e.g. 12,500 for twelve thousand five hundred.
But most of you on the Continent do this the other way round, don't you? Every European paper I can ever recall seeing uses a comma for a decimal point and either a period or a space as a thousands separator.
Are there any countries in Continental Europe which don't adhere to this convention? It all seems very strange to those of us who grew up in Anglo-Saxon countries.
[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 06-09-2003).]
