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minus-squareViatorOmnium@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·4 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-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·4 days agoWikipedia has a great map for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Conventions_worldwide
minus-squareMisterFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoWe really need to pick one and go with it. This is upsetting haha
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 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-squareTrainguyrom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoI love how maps like this basically are just maps of historical conquest
minus-squarefartographer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·4 days agoThe penguins refuse to answer surveys
minus-squareEbber@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·4 days agoThis map largely overlaps a map of The British Empire, doesn’t it?
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·4 days agoHow come they managed to get data for Greenland?
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-24 days agoBecause enough of the people who live there answered the question? 🤷
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 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-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoYeah I know, my reply was a “false ignorance” joke itself 😁
minus-squareedgemaster72@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoDamn, that fancy Arabic comma is looking sweeeeet
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. 🙃
I love how maps like this basically are just maps of historical conquest
The penguins refuse to answer surveys
This map largely overlaps a map of The British Empire, doesn’t it?
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 😁
Damn, that fancy Arabic comma is looking sweeeeet