Decimal separator
Decimal separator
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Which ISO standards address the issue of commas vs. periods as decimal separators and 10^3 separators?
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RE: Decimal separator
BS 8888:2000 section 18.2
RE: Decimal separator
The ISO standard is 31-0:1992 (which is identical to BS 5775-0)
RE: Decimal separator
Briefly, the decimal separator is a comma, and "thousands" both before and after the decimal are separate by a space, i.e. digits are presented in groups of three.
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