On 2/27/2012 2:28 PM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: > ISO specifies comma to be used in international standards > (ISO/IEC Directives, part 2 / 6.6.8.1): > > http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink?func=ll&objId=10562502&objAction=download
I do not think you are right. I think that is a presentational requirement: rules of presentation for documents that are intended to become international standards. Note as well the requirement of spacing to separate digits. Clearly this cannot be a data storage specification. Naturally, the important thing is to agree on a standard data representation. Which one it is is less important, especially if conversion tools will be supplied. But it really is past time for the scientific community to insist on one international standard, and the decimal point has privilege of place because of computing language conventions. (Being the standard in the two largest economies in the world is a different kind of argument in favor of this choice.) Alan Isaac _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
