Late reply, but I just learned that the US, the UK and Thailand are among the only countries that use the convention of commas as separators and a period as the decimal point. The rest of the world uses some variation of the alternatives.
The article I read mentioned that data transmitted between information systems can often be unusable, unreadable or incompatible with computer systems in another country and not just a third world to another third world country. We're talking France and the UK here, two powerful industrialized first world nations, neighbors separated by only 23 miles of water.
This is a problem. With globalization and increasing international space exploration partnerships, we need international standardization.
I'm not wrong or right for the method I learned... I'd just like to see the planet get on the same page. Lack of a standard could be trouble.
I'm with you. I read a lot of articles from other countries. I often have to consider context and whether or not a number makes sense in order to figure out the data presented. We use a lot of big and little numbers in biology, and often normalize our scales in some fashion, so it can be difficult to discern that their periods are commas in the article.
That answer is 0.002, kind of a fail in my book.
The article I read mentioned that data transmitted between information systems can often be unusable, unreadable or incompatible with computer systems in another country and not just a third world to another third world country. We're talking France and the UK here, two powerful industrialized first world nations, neighbors separated by only 23 miles of water.
This is a problem. With globalization and increasing international space exploration partnerships, we need international standardization.
I'm not wrong or right for the method I learned... I'd just like to see the planet get on the same page. Lack of a standard could be trouble.