Using commas instead of periods...

[Petal]

Ok, humor me here please...

Seeing Boub's recent news post and using a comma to express the break between dollars and cents.. (ie, $2,99 instead of $2.99) is this a European thing? or something that I've missed in all these 20+ years... ? (I saw someone else use it recently on this forum) please enlighten me. The comma throws me off somehow.

[Jaxi]

This is a good post! So I did a search. This will answer all of your questions I think (Scroll down to the graph).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark

Bon appetite.

[Flitter]

Yes.

European notations:
5,- €
4,98 €
9.489,95 €

[Badpaladin]

It's always a little weird to get used to whenever I go to Europe. "haha, they put the comma in the wrong place. What?! This laptop is 50 THOUSAND EUROS?!?! Ohhhhhhhhh, right".

It's a trip.

[Simca]

Yep, it's reversed in several places.

The decimal marks the thousands place and the comma marks the decimals.

E.g. $5,400.00 vs $5.400,00

[Pud'n]

So we know Boub is European hmmmmm very interesting news.

[Simca]

He's French - thought his name gave that away.

[TobyKenobi]

I wonder if you could get BestBuy to price match something in a European advertisement... flat screen tv for $1.500 please.

[Shadowmelded]

Btw, even though the UK is part of Europe, the decimal point is used the same as in America. It's all kinds of crazy.

[Bakinpacman]

From what i learned at school in Australia it was a standard that we used a comma for each hundredth value after the decimal point for zero.

[Lollis]

UK:

£50.50 - Fifty pounds and fifty pence.
£5,050 - Five thousand and fifty pounds
£5,050.50 - Five thousand and fifty pounds and fifty pence.

Monetarily, Periods indicate pennies (which can never be more than 99 obviously) and commas indicate thousands.

£1,000,000.99 - One million pounds and ninety nine pence.

Euro users are strange.