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| Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5679 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes  Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 1 of 6 05 March 2010 at 8:48am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm hoping someone can clarify something for me. I'm reading a German website and am
having a little trouble with understanding some numbers. Am I correct to assume the following: $17.500 (German) = $17,500 (English) $176,36 (German) = $176.36 (English) Thanks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6472 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 2 of 6 05 March 2010 at 9:01am | IP Logged | ||
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Indeed. German uses . to separate thousands and millions and , to separate fractions.
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6911 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 6 05 March 2010 at 6:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think the only reasonable meaning of a number ending with a two-digit group would be a fraction, and a three-digit group quite a large number (larger than one thousand). I mean, nobody would mistake thinking that $17,500 is seventeen dollars and five-hundred... "millidollars"... In Sweden it's customary to insert spaces between each three-digit group, and comma before fractions, e.g. 1 609 000 (one million six-hundred and nine thousand), 2,5 hours (two and a half hours).
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6472 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 4 of 6 05 March 2010 at 6:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah, inserting spaces is an alternative in Germany, but dots are much more common.
I would be careful not to assume too much by the amount of grouped digits though, because e. g. Mandarin creates groups of four for high numbers, in keeping with their counting system which is based on ten thousands rather than thousands. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| MäcØSŸ Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5811 days ago 259 posts - 392 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2 Studies: German | Message 5 of 6 05 March 2010 at 7:58pm | IP Logged | ||
Indian languages use groups of two digits, after the first three (like 1,00,00,000 which is called “a crore”). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
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