"...AlternativeTo had about 217.000 visitors on that first day..." Why can't we all agree upon a universal, consistent notation for math and science?
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#12"...AlternativeTo had about 217.000 visitors on that first day..." Why can't we all agree upon a universal, consistent notation for math and science?
The metric system still fails to impose itself universally, so we can wait some time before the decimal mark is unified...
The 2006 CIA Factbook stated that the "US is the only industrialized nation that does not mainly use the metric system", (in addition to non-industrialised Burma/Myanmar and Liberia).
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#14"...AlternativeTo had about 217.000 visitors on that first day..." Why can't we all agree upon a universal, consistent notation for math and science?
On a slightly different tangent, why do people put the dollar sign in front of the numer?
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#15"...AlternativeTo had about 217.000 visitors on that first day..." Why can't we all agree upon a universal, consistent notation for math and science?
this is why I usually use spaces to separate thousands, so that I don't confuse people expecting either notation.
The standard where I'm from is also a period for thousands, and a comma for the decimal fraction, but reading as much English scientific and computing literature, I am well aware that the period for decimal fraction is almost a de facto standard. So I tend to use spaces for the thousands and a period for the decimal fraction, so that anyone who sees the spaces can infer what the other symbol means.
Fortunately I am not aware of any notation system that uses a space to separate the decimal fraction :)
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
The metric system still fails to impose itself universally, so we can wait some time before the decimal mark is unified...
The 2006 CIA Factbook stated that the "US is the only industrialized nation that does not mainly use the metric system", (in addition to non-industrialised Burma/Myanmar and Liberia).
This particular case is not English vs. Metric, but rather lack of cohesion in the metric system.
English: Use commas for separating thousands, use periods for decimals.
Metric: Use spaces for separating thousands, use periods OR commas for decimals.
In this instance, the English approach is obviously the superior one, as spaces are more confusing to use as a delimiter than commas, and there should only be one way to write decimals for consistency.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
The 2006 CIA Factbook stated that the "US is the only industrialized nation that does not mainly use the metric system", (in addition to non-industrialised Burma/Myanmar and Liberia).
This particular case is not English vs. Metric, but rather lack of cohesion in the metric system. English: Use commas for separating thousands, use periods for decimals. Metric: Use spaces for separating thousands, use periods OR commas for decimals. In this instance, the English approach is obviously the superior one, as spaces are more confusing to use as a delimiter than commas, and there should only be one way to…
There is some other system that uses periods for thousands and commas for decimals - the exact reverse of what you've listed as the english convention. I always thought it was a european convention. It makes more sense than what you've listed as the metric convention.
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#18Probably one of the reasons Google linked to them, is that they have so many Google ads on their pages (3 of them - quite disturbing to me).
And Google takes about 32% of the price paid by the advertiser.
Just a back-of-the-envelope calculation: let's assume 217000 page views, with a 1% CTR, and a 1$ CPC. The result (of that 1 day) : ~2000$.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
This particular case is not English vs. Metric, but rather lack of cohesion in the metric system. English: Use commas for separating thousands, use periods for decimals. Metric: Use spaces for separating thousands, use periods OR commas for decimals. In this instance, the English approach is obviously the superior one, as spaces are more confusing to use as a delimiter than commas, and there should only be one way to…
There is some other system that uses periods for thousands and commas for decimals - the exact reverse of what you've listed as the english convention. I always thought it was a european convention. It makes more sense than what you've listed as the metric convention.
Esperanto and Interlingua both use that convention.