> For some damn reason I till don't understand, the decimal separator in Sweden is the comma and not the period.
I'm curious to know the history of why (some?) Euro countries went with the common and the Anglo world went with the period. Some details:
> In France, the full stop was already in use in printing to make Roman numerals more readable, so the comma was chosen.[13] Many other countries, such as Italy, also chose to use the comma to mark the decimal units position.[13] It has been made standard by the ISO for international blueprints.[14] However, English-speaking countries took the comma to separate sequences of three digits. In some countries, a raised dot or dash (upper comma) may be used for grouping or decimal separator; this is particularly common in handwriting.
I'm curious to know the history of why (some?) Euro countries went with the common and the Anglo world went with the period. Some details:
> In France, the full stop was already in use in printing to make Roman numerals more readable, so the comma was chosen.[13] Many other countries, such as Italy, also chose to use the comma to mark the decimal units position.[13] It has been made standard by the ISO for international blueprints.[14] However, English-speaking countries took the comma to separate sequences of three digits. In some countries, a raised dot or dash (upper comma) may be used for grouping or decimal separator; this is particularly common in handwriting.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
ISO seems to say use a comma:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_80000#Part_2:_Mathemat...