Ah yes. Blue, green and green. The ideal chart colours.
I do a tax return for a guy who has some income in India. Their overall number formatting is so foreign to me, when I did this guy’s return for the first time, I had to screenshot a couple of the numbers and send them to an Indian friend of mine to ask what the hell the number was.
So after the first 3 zeroes, it’s a comma every second zero. And there are local names for those denominations.
So
10
100
1,000
10,000
1,00,000 = 1 Lakh or 1 Lac
10,00,000 = 10 Lakhs/Lacs
1,00,00,000 = 1 Crore
People generally don’t use the next set of names which are called 1 Arab and then 1 Kharab and probably a few more, they just start saying 1000 crores or lakhs of crore etc.
Many people also use millions and billions instead of the above.
And then decimals are denoted by a period, not commas.
Kind of related, our financial year is from 1st April till 31st March, so you gotta watch out for quarter numbers not matching. Our financial Q1 is the calendar Q2…
🇵🇪 (Peru) only uses decimal for currency
I hope NASA checks Peruvians’ math before they accept their contributions to Artemis /s
Does decimal here mean (decimal) dot or do they not use decimal numbers/fractions?
Yes, they missed the word “dot” (as long as we can trust the unsourced Wikipedia list they probably used, I cannot find another English-language source confirming that). I was just kidding (as indicated by “/s”).
French Canadian. I once accidentally transferred WAY too much money in a banking transaction because of this.
100 times. I do everything in English on my computer and for some reason that day my banking session was opened in French. So it ignored the decimal point for cents in the number I entered. I asked to transfer 160.50 bucks (or whatever the exact number was), and it transferred 16 050 instead. Luckily I could fix it with a phone call.
How many of the comma countries use the word for “point” when reading the decimal?
Why would we say that?
There’s a comma, we say comma. Otherwise would be confusing.
There’s a period in English, but we don’t say period. We say point.
I was wondering about French because they also have the word “point”, but looking it up they say “and” or sometimes “comma”.