Notice to all clients using comma decimals

[Jonny69]

Notice to all clients:

We are sick of you using commas for decimals in your numbers. Commas are for a short pause or break during a sentence, not for decimal points in numbers. They are called decimal places for a reason. Using commas for decimal points causes us nothing but grief. We invented them and it's our product, we are right. Well actually the Arabs invented them.

I have worked out an alternative, from now on you shall not use any decimal places at all and you will round all numbers up. This will have the following positive effects: 1) you will appear to increase your income because everything will be rounded up and 2) you will over value and over-inflate your currency against the Pound.

Once your currency is suitably devalued due to your incompentent runaway inflation you will realise just how worthless you are and that Britain is great. You will return to a farming living with some kind of feudal system and we will crush you on our regular crusades as we have done in the past.

Regards

Jon

 

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[Mansize_tissue]

While I agree with you, things can be confusing when people begin to use a point as a multiplication sign and to denote a decimal point.

 

[platypus]

Jonny for president!

 

[Ricochet J]

Jonny69 vs Obama vs McCain tbh.

 

[Ex-RoNiN]

Notice to all clients:

We are sick of you using commas for decimals in your numbers. Commas are for a short pause or break during a sentence, not for decimal points in numbers. They are called decimal places for a reason. Using commas for decimal points causes us nothing but grief. We invented them and it's our product, we are right. Well actually the Arabs invented them.

I have worked out an alternative, from now on you shall not use any decimal places at all and you will round all numbers up. This will have the following positive effects: 1) you will appear to increase your income because everything will be rounded up and 2) you will over value and over-inflate your currency against the Pound.

Once your currency is suitably devalued due to your incompentent runaway inflation you will realise just how worthless you are and that Britain is great. You will return to a farming living with some kind of feudal system and we will crush you on our regular crusades as we have done in the past.

Regards

Jon

The UK and the US are some of the FEW countries that use periods to separate the decimals. MOST other countries use commas.

SOME make up their own numbering systems (eg India)

It is a fact of life. Deal with it, or change jobs

 

[lolism]

Ugh, been through that before. Horrible importing CSV files to our system when they do that!

Ctrl+H , -> .

 

[Vanilla]

I will pay you the sum of 99,999.00

 

[Abraham]

The UK and the US are some of the FEW countries that use periods to separate the decimals. MOST other countries use commas.

SOME make up their own numbering systems (eg India)

It is a fact of life. Deal with it, or change jobs

if you use a comma as your decimal, is there anyway of breaking up numbers into thousands, like we sensible people use commas for?

 

[Raikiri]

if you use a comma as your decimal, is there anyway of breaking up numbers into thousands, like we sensible people use commas for?

Yeah, they use decimal places. Freaks

 

[[DOD]Asprilla]

Ugh, been through that before. Horrible importing CSV files to our system when they do that!

You should try it with 26,000 phone numbers; ooh parenthasise, that must mean this number is acually a multiplication and a hyphen means that it's a minus.

The data QA on that was a bitch.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

*bulldog pose*

That's the British Spirit!

*wipes tear of pride from cheek*

 

[Jonny69]

We break up our numbers in a sensible way which mirrors our grammar.

Not like this:

One Million. One hundred thousand. Five hundred, ninety nine

It makes no sense. They should be walked all over and their cities bulldozed. All capitalistic activity should be nipped in the bud before it gets out of control.

 

[Col_M]

I agree, I have to deal with foreigners every day who use commas.

Another thing that gets confusing is if people use points for hours and minutes
e.g. 4.25 rather than 4:25

4.25 could legitimately be taken as 4:25 or 4:15 depending on how it's interpreted.

 

[Siliconslave]

we totally did away with any separation in the reporting at the place i work as we have all sorts of currencies in all sorts countries. so now you just get the value in pence (or whatever) regardless

confused the hell out of a couple of people for a while, suddenly their £49 ballance became 4900