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by roymabookie 5020 days ago
That first table had me confused. read those dots as decimal points. rather than separating points,,,
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Me too! I read the "So i get around 2.500 items/day in my Twitter stream, which is quite a lot!" and thought, "Does he mean mentions or what? Why would he output the number to three significant features."

I shrugged it off and continued to be amazed by the data this app can collect and promptly signed up for the beta.

Depends on where you live, there's no standard.
You mean the standards/convention vary by region. :)

On the other hand, if writing in English, it makes sense to use the conventions for English, not the German ones just because you might happen to be German.

yes, euro-style . vs ,
The ISO standard recommends using a small space instead.

Numbers consisting of long sequences of digits can be made more readable by separating them into groups, preferably groups of three, separated by a small space. For this reason, ISO 31-0 specifies that such groups of digits should never be separated by a comma or point, as these are reserved for use as the decimal sign.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_31-0#Numbers

I did not knew that there is an ISO standard for this, will use it the next time, thank you!