I don't know about the Japanese, but Chinese people read like
12亿，3456万，7890. (simplified, traditional version would be exactly the same
writing as Japanese).
I've never seen it separated with commas though, I always see 1234567890.
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Jesse Phillips
> wrote:
> Rai
Rainer Deyke Wrote:
> Using groupings of three digits in Japanese seems extremely awkward,
> especially for larger numbers, since you would have to mentally regroup
> the digits in groups of four in order to read it. It's not just the
> written language but the spoken language that uses groups of
Le 24/10/2010 15:23, Kagamin a écrit :
Rainer Deyke Wrote:
Using groupings of three digits in Japanese seems extremely awkward,
especially for larger numbers, since you would have to mentally regroup
the digits in groups of four in order to read it. It's not just the
written language but the s
Rainer Deyke Wrote:
> Using groupings of three digits in Japanese seems extremely awkward,
> especially for larger numbers, since you would have to mentally regroup
> the digits in groups of four in order to read it. It's not just the
> written language but the spoken language that uses groups of
Rainer Deyke:
> Also, even in English there are cases where groupings other than three
> make sense. Consider:
>
> int price_in_cents = 54_95;
I see. It was a cute idea, but in the end it doesn't work. Thank you and the
other people for all the answers.
Bye,
bearophile
On Oct 24, 10 03:11, Rainer Deyke wrote:
On 10/23/2010 10:53, Kagamin wrote:
It's how their language builds numbers. Numbers written in ideographs
use this grouping, but this doesn't mean, they use the same grouping
for arabic digits. For example, amazon.co.jp uses arabic numbers and
western 3-d
On 10/23/2010 10:53, Kagamin wrote:
> It's how their language builds numbers. Numbers written in ideographs
> use this grouping, but this doesn't mean, they use the same grouping
> for arabic digits. For example, amazon.co.jp uses arabic numbers and
> western 3-digit grouping.
Using groupings of t
Olivier Pisano Wrote:
> Chinese and Japanese people do create large numbers are by grouping
> digits in myriads (every 10,000) rather than the Western thousands (1000) :
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_numerals#Large_numbers
It's how their language builds numbers. Numbers written in i
Le 23/10/2010 05:11, bearophile a écrit :
This is a minor thing, if you aren't interested, ignore it.
The support for underscore in number literals as done in D and Ada is a feature
I like a lot. But you may write:
long x = 1_000_000_000_00;
The usage of underscores there doesn't correspond t
On 10/22/2010 11:11 PM, bearophile wrote:
This is a minor thing, if you aren't interested, ignore it.
The support for underscore in number literals as done in D and Ada is a feature
I like a lot. But you may write:
long x = 1_000_000_000_00;
The usage of underscores there doesn't correspond t
On Oct 23, 10 11:11, bearophile wrote:
This is a minor thing, if you aren't interested, ignore it.
The support for underscore in number literals as done in D and Ada is a feature
I like a lot. But you may write:
long x = 1_000_000_000_00;
The usage of underscores there doesn't correspond to t
This is a minor thing, if you aren't interested, ignore it.
The support for underscore in number literals as done in D and Ada is a feature
I like a lot. But you may write:
long x = 1_000_000_000_00;
The usage of underscores there doesn't correspond to the thousands, this may
lead to mistakes,
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