I think one of us is doing Math wrong, I'm worried it might be me.

I wasn't surprised by the dead rabbit's answer, since it is exactly the same as my European friends from Uni. What I was wondering was whether he, as an American/UK studies student, could explain the differing viewpoint... and whether perhaps the English translations a monolingual visitor would read might not use das komma, aber der punkt (I hope I got that right .

I suspect it might be one of those questions which will just go un-answered.
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Oh disturbing numbers, what have you done?
I never use these points when I am doing Math in private (dark room, candles, lubricant - no questions)
but for the sake of readability I inserted them without even thinking about points and commas, what the dead rabbit explained is absolutely right nonetheless.

Fun fact: If we say decimal numbers in German we go "one comma five" (Eins Komma Fünf) for "1.5" instead of "one point five". So your "decimal point" is exactly equal to our "Komma".

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I have an American/UK studies question for you, [...]

Oh disturbing numbers, what have you done?
I never use these points when I am doing Math in private (dark room, candles, lubricant - no questions)
but for the sake of readability I inserted them without even thinking about points and commas, what the dead rabbit explained is absolutely right nonetheless.

Fun fact: If we say decimal numbers in German we go "one comma five" (Eins Komma Fünf) for "1.5" instead of "one point five". So your "decimal point" is exactly equal to our "Komma".

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I have an American/UK studies question for you, if you have a minute to spare.

In the Patriotic-Millionaires-TAX-ME video, your countryman luxury_pie put in a comment using the period as a thousands separator and the comma as the decimal radix... which I would expect as I have always been taught that much of continental Europe uses this convention. Then in later discussion an Englishman who has traveled widely in continental Europe and lived in Spain pointed out that in his travels, he has never seen this.

So, my question is how widely is each convention used in Germany in the parts an English speaking visitor would encounter? Should he have come across the period thousands separator and/or the comma decimal radix at all? Road signs? Menus?

The on-line (American!!!!) information just says that in Germany this is how it is, and never says "oh, but in shops the price might use a period".

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bah most governments I cannot help it that Norway are cool

>> ^Drachen_Jager:

>> ^westy:
Its also interesting how governments use events like 911 as excuses to pass laws that ultimately cripple a society and are entirely counter productive for the population but beneficial to a small minority ( patriot act) < also interesting that they name the laws and acts something that makes it hard to argue against them without sounding Un amercan>

Ahem, that should be 'government' at least in the contemporary world. Yeah the Nazis enacted similar things after their 'terrorist' attack, but to say 'governments' in the modern sense as if to blanket everyone with the same duvet is overlooking the obvious case of Norway, where no such extreme measures were taken, and a rational dialogue began immediately with the idea that they would not let the terrorists dictate the rules of the game.
Osama said the attack would cripple the US economy and destroy your freedoms. The American reaction? Spend trillions of dollars to 'feel safer' and restrict its citizen's freedoms. Aside from hunting him down and killing him the US government gave him EVERYTHING he wanted.

>> ^westy:
Its also interesting how governments use events like 911 as excuses to pass laws that ultimately cripple a society and are entirely counter productive for the population but beneficial to a small minority ( patriot act) < also interesting that they name the laws and acts something that makes it hard to argue against them without sounding Un amercan>


Ahem, that should be 'government' at least in the contemporary world. Yeah the Nazis enacted similar things after their 'terrorist' attack, but to say 'governments' in the modern sense as if to blanket everyone with the same duvet is overlooking the obvious case of Norway, where no such extreme measures were taken, and a rational dialogue began immediately with the idea that they would not let the terrorists dictate the rules of the game.

Osama said the attack would cripple the US economy and destroy your freedoms. The American reaction? Spend trillions of dollars to 'feel safer' and restrict its citizen's freedoms. Aside from hunting him down and killing him the US government gave him EVERYTHING he wanted.

http://tinyurl.com/3zx4kmw
>> ^ponceleon:

Holy shit... anyone have a complete list of Hershey products so I can never buy that shit again? FFS this is just downright evil.

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>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I didn't realize Pat Robertson was still among the living.
http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/rnames-nf/Robertson+Pat


I keep hoping for his passing, but then again, who will fill the condemnation hole in his absence? The evil you know and all that rubbish.

I didn't realize Pat Robertson was still among the living.

http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/rnames-nf/Robertson+Pat

>> ^rottenseed:

Paul Revere?
I did it like this, I did it like that, I did it with a wiffleball bat. Sooo...I'm on the run...


werd!

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