From: http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/japanese/largenumber.html
"The East Asian number system is based on ten thousand, which means multiplying ten thousand to a unit makes the next unit, while the European number system is based on one thousand, which means multiplying one thousand to a unit makes the next unit, for instance thousand times thousand is a million, and thousand times a million is a billion." Jim Wagner On Apr 15, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Tim Jones wrote: > On Apr 15, 2007, at 4:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi, all! >> >> In a message dated 4/10/07 5:50:58 PM, Joe Strout writes: >> >>> No, it should be "1,234,567.12". (In the Format specifier, >>> it doesn't matter how many commas you put in or where you >>> put them; the mere presence of a comma indicates that you >>> want to use the thousands separator in the standard way, >>> i.e. every 3 digits.) >>> >> The last statement prompts me to ask a question about >> the position of the thousands separator. When I was studying >> Japanese, my instructors said that the thousands separator >> was between the thousands and ten-thousands digit not >> between the hundreds and thousands separator. > > Not sure where your Japanese instructors came up with that, but > according to NIST, the digit grouping separator should be placed > after every group of three numbers. And, the separator should be a > "small space". However, for non-NIST representation, the comma is > the standard separator where the period is used as the decimal > separator. The only exception that I found in a brief search was in > numbers that only have 4 digits to the left of the decimal; maybe > that's where they came up with it - "unless your numeric value is ten > thousand or greater, you don't need to use the separator". In that > case, the separator is optional unless used to maintain consistency > in a table. > > So, regardless of what you use for the separator, the recommended > standard grouping is three digits. > >> Am I correct >> that if I wanted to vary from the RB-supplied Format function >> in that, I'd have to write one of my own? > > Yes, you could and you would, but why would you want to change an > international standard? > > Tim > -- > Tim Jones > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
