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by rad_gruchalski 654 days ago
It depends where in Europe ;) Switzerland, Liechtenstein and United Kingdom use decimal point.
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In Romania the comma should be the decimal separator in theory.

In practice my online banking uses the dot, and doesn't accept commas anywhere. And it's a Romanian bank with a homemade web interface.

I just checked 3 random paper receipts i had lying around (from different stores), two use the comma and one the dot.

The French, on the other hand, religiously use the comma as a decimal separator.
In Switzerland we mostly use the format 12'345'678.901

Obviously I'm biased but I think it's the best system because there's no room for confusion.

But you do use a decimal point. Liechtenstein uses exactly the same format.
Interesting! Does it differ in different languages? I assumed German Swiss will use the same system as Germany, French Swiss the same in French, etc.