What's more powerful the Coma or a Space?
What's more powerful the Coma or a Space?
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I was just reading an article about a local city requesting state money for a cross walk on a busy, 4-lane road. The article had a statistic of "25, 150" daily cars. I had to re-read it several times to understand they meant twenty five thousand, one and fifty cars, and not a range of 25 or 150 cars. Very frustrating.
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RE: What's more powerful the Coma or a Space?
Where possible, I try to use an en-space so the digits look more like a single number. If that's not possible, I have to concede that commas are probably the next best thing.
RE: What's more powerful the Coma or a Space?
- Steve
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RE: What's more powerful the Coma or a Space?
I have seen the comma and space used in this fashion before too. On that case, when answering, I like to spell the numbers as well as quantify the amount numerically in my terms.
Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)
RE: What's more powerful the Coma or a Space?
IMO the accepted engish canadian usage is 12,345,678.90.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-0169/overv...
another day in paradise, or is paradise one day closer ?
RE: What's more powerful the Coma or a Space?
After that class I put the number convention into the nomenclature section of papers and work product.
David Simpson, PE
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RE: What's more powerful the Coma or a Space?
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Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)
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"The decimal marker used by SAE is the dot on the line (.) for quantities in either U.S. customary or SI units.
To facilitate the reading of numbers having five or more digits, the digit should be placed in groups of three
separated by a space instead of a comma, counting both lo the left and to the right of the decimal point. In
the case of four digits, the spacing is optional. This style also avoids confusion caused by the use elsewhere
of the comma to express the decimal marker.
For example, use:
1 532 or 1532 instead of 1,532
132 541 816 instead of 132,541,816
983 769.788 16 instead of 983,769.78816"