RmDebArc_5 to [email protected]English • 4 days ago9 billion IQ movepiefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.comimagemessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1703
arrow-up1703image9 billion IQ movepiefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.comRmDebArc_5 to [email protected]English • 4 days agomessage-square43fedilink
minus-squareViatorOmniumlinkfedilinkEnglish10•4 days agoThe only Europeans that use the . as a decimal separator are the British and present and former colonies. All continental Europe except Gibraltar use the ,, and consequently so do most of Africa and South America.
minus-squareEpheralinkfedilinkEnglish17•4 days agoWikipedia has a great map for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Conventions_worldwide
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 days agoWe really need to pick one and go with it. This is upsetting haha
minus-squareEpheralinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 days agoYeah, I do greatly enjoy pulling out this map whenever someone says “only those weirdos in <region/language> do it the other way around”. Nono, it’s actually a pretty even split. 🙃
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•3 days agoI love how maps like this basically are just maps of historical conquest
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•4 days agoThis map largely overlaps a map of The British Empire, doesn’t it?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•4 days agoDamn, that fancy Arabic comma is looking sweeeeet
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•4 days agoHow come they managed to get data for Greenland?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•edit-23 days agoBecause enough of the people who live there answered the question? 🤷
minus-squareEpheralinkfedilinkEnglish3•3 days agoI think, it was a joke, because Greenland is often marked as “No data available” on such maps, for not really any good reason…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•3 days agoYeah I know, my reply was a “false ignorance” joke itself 😁
The only Europeans that use the
.as a decimal separator are the British and present and former colonies.All continental Europe except Gibraltar use the
,, and consequently so do most of Africa and South America.Wikipedia has a great map for this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Conventions_worldwide
We really need to pick one and go with it.
This is upsetting haha
Yeah, I do greatly enjoy pulling out this map whenever someone says “only those weirdos in <region/language> do it the other way around”. Nono, it’s actually a pretty even split. 🙃
The penguins refuse to answer surveys
I love how maps like this basically are just maps of historical conquest
This map largely overlaps a map of The British Empire, doesn’t it?
Damn, that fancy Arabic comma is looking sweeeeet
How come they managed to get data for Greenland?
Because enough of the people who live there answered the question? 🤷
I think, it was a joke, because Greenland is often marked as “No data available” on such maps, for not really any good reason…
Yeah I know, my reply was a “false ignorance” joke itself 😁