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by fastball 4733 days ago
Indeed, and that is what I've seen from many Europeans.

However, I think that must be a convention from before the universal adoption of the metric system by the EU, as the 22nd General Conference on Weights and Measures (held in 2003) declared that the symbol for decimals should be "the point on the line or the comma on the line".

i.e. the official metric system symbol is period or comma, regardless of what actual Europeans use.

http://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/Resol22CGPM-EN.pdf [page 11]
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coldtea 4733 days ago
>i.e. the official metric system symbol is period or comma, regardless of what actual Europeans use.

Regardless? Those (and mainly comma) is exactly what Europeans use. It's not like there is some other symbol besides those too in use for that purpose.

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fastball 4733 days ago
Yes, there is another convention. (spaces)+(commas or periods) != (periods)+(commas)

What you are talking about is a European convention, not a metric convention. There is a difference.

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