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Decimal Separator and Internationalization
This morning I ran across the following tip from Joost Helberg on Mastodon: TIL don’t report numbers with three digits after the decimal point. People may interpret the decimal point as a thousands separator. Using 2 or 4 digits, although wrong, avoids off by a factor thousand errors. I usually report four decimal places, but I hadn’t thought about that in relation to the decimal separator problem. In software development, it’s best to let a lib…
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