Some years back, I had a friend who had lived in Germany for some time who came to the US and did a cash transfer without thinking at an ATM and couldn’t figure out at first why her account got frozen. She’d used a comma instead of a period when entering the amount of money to be moved.
It is called a decimal separator. Should be obvious why languages that use a point for it would call it “decimal point”. Other languages refer to it as comma.
Wow, the 1TB OLED model costs 919,00€ in Germany. Man this is depressing times.
(the comma is a decimal point)
A small, but important detail. :D I always try to use the correct decimal separator for the unit.
Some years back, I had a friend who had lived in Germany for some time who came to the US and did a cash transfer without thinking at an ATM and couldn’t figure out at first why her account got frozen. She’d used a comma instead of a period when entering the amount of money to be moved.
Omg xD that’s actually horrifying.
I would love to see information about why some countries do that.
It’s called a point.
It is called a decimal separator. Should be obvious why languages that use a point for it would call it “decimal point”. Other languages refer to it as comma.
It really bugged me until I realize it basically means 919 euros AND 0 cents.
Whereas in North America we basically would say $919.99 meaning $919 dollars and 99% of a dollar.