[plug] Calculator that uses commas , for thousands seperation

[Richard Meyer]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 10:12 +0800, Adam Davin wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 22:53:11 +0800
> Chris Caston <caston at arach.net.au> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 22:50, Richard Meyer wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 22:45 +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> > > 
> <snip>
> 
> An interesting point (for some maybe). My son brought home a newsletter
> from school the other day regarding number formats.
> 
> I can't find the newsletter at the moment and have tried googling for
> some verifiable information but can't find anything at the moment.
> 
> Anyway it was along the lines of Australia will be adopting the
> numerical formats supported by the EU. This, from memory, involves
> replacing the humble '.' decimal separator with a ',' and I think spaces
> in between each "set" of thousand. Or something of that nature. Can't
> remember the time frame, I think it was something like 10 years. 
> 
> There was also something about date separators changing from '/' to
> something else.. 
> 
> Others please feel free to jump in and correct any mistakes or
> oversights, coffee hasn't kicked in yet.. 

Yup, that's the European format
123,456.78  becomes
123 456,78  Gonna confuse the crap out of you for a few years  ;-)

Had it in South Africa since the seventies.
> 
> Have a good day!
> 
> Regards, 
> 
-- 
Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>