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Getting Started => Technical Support/Testing => Topic started by: PlaymoZoo on September 03, 2012, 13:34:50

Title: I think there is something wrong with my profile posts....
Post by: PlaymoZoo on September 03, 2012, 13:34:50
Hi everyone, it's not an important question, but why on earth does my profile say I post 13.750 post per day?  :hmm:

This is how it looks:

Username:
    PlaymoZoo
Posts:   
     55 (13.750 per day)      :eh?:

just a problem/error I guess, but I still wanted to ask.
Thank you,

Title: Re: I think there is something wrong with my profile posts....
Post by: bonniebeth on September 03, 2012, 13:37:52
That should be right, I think. You've only been registered for 4 full days now, so your average is 14 posts a day.
Title: Re: I think there is something wrong with my profile posts....
Post by: Ismene on September 03, 2012, 13:47:52
13.750 is American for 13,750.
Title: Re: I think there is something wrong with my profile posts....
Post by: bonniebeth on September 03, 2012, 14:36:52
13.750 is American for 13,750.

Oh yes, that's where the confusion is, I guess! I forget there's a difference there.
Title: Re: I think there is something wrong with my profile posts....
Post by: Rasputin on September 03, 2012, 14:46:05
13.750 is American for 13,750.

how?? its almost 14 not thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty

the "." is a period not a "," comma

It is showing 13 whole and .75 or 3/4 of a post to go with peoples 2 1/4 average children  :lol:
Title: Re: I think there is something wrong with my profile posts....
Post by: tahra on September 03, 2012, 14:57:48
Whoever came up with different formats for dates and decimals will also spend eternity in the SPECIAL hell. Just sayin. WE HATES THEM.
Title: Re: I think there is something wrong with my profile posts....
Post by: Ismene on September 03, 2012, 14:59:04
Rasputin, some countries have them switched.
Title: Re: I think there is something wrong with my profile posts....
Post by: Rasputin on September 03, 2012, 15:05:39
Rasputin, some countries have them switched.

really, I did not know. As if the SAE and Metric was not bad enough. The worst is when you are working on a piece of equipment and they used both sets  :hmm:

so a "," is a "." in Europe ? In the US you would write $13,245.56  Thirteen thousand two hundred forty five dollars and fifty six cents. In Europe you write $13.245,56 ?
Title: Re: I think there is something wrong with my profile posts....
Post by: PlaymoZoo on September 03, 2012, 15:52:31
Looooooots of numbers 8}
But I think I get it, thanks. :)
Title: Re: I think there is something wrong with my profile posts....
Post by: bonniebeth on September 03, 2012, 16:39:27

so a "," is a "." in Europe ? In the US you would write $13,245.56  Thirteen thousand two hundred forty five dollars and fifty six cents. In Europe you write $13.245,56 ?

Correct. I think that's why we see crazy prices on ebay sometimes, people trying to sell in a different currency and not realizing the numbering format is different.
Title: Re: I think there is something wrong with my profile posts....
Post by: cowabounga on September 03, 2012, 17:35:13
really, I did not know. As if the SAE and Metric was not bad enough. The worst is when you are working on a piece of equipment and they used both sets  :hmm:

so a "," is a "." in Europe ? In the US you would write $13,245.56  Thirteen thousand two hundred forty five dollars and fifty six cents. In Europe you write $13.245,56 ?

Not at all. We would write 13245, 56€ (with € at the end!) for thirty thousand two hundred forty five point fifty six AND 13, 24556€ if it's thirteen point 24556!  ;)
Title: Re: I think there is something wrong with my profile posts....
Post by: bonniebeth on September 03, 2012, 17:43:47
So nothing divides the thousand from the hundred? I would think that would make it difficult to read a really long number.
Title: Re: I think there is something wrong with my profile posts....
Post by: Rasputin on September 03, 2012, 18:31:12
In the US the numbers are broken down into groups. Hundreds, thousand, millions, billions, etc..... all by ","'s and full dollars are ended with a "." then you write the change   

$12,345,678.90

we have the "$" sign in the front but it is said at the end  8} then the change

twelve million, three hundred forty five thousand, six hundred seventy eight dollars & ninty cents
Title: Re: I think there is something wrong with my profile posts....
Post by: cowabounga on September 03, 2012, 18:42:52
When the number is big, we tend to separate the figures three by three, with just a blank space between: 2 330 451, 50 would be read two million three hundred thirty thousand four hundred fifty one "virgule" (that's "," in French) fifty. We manage easily, though you're the ones who stepped on the moon, of course!  :lol:
Title: Re: I think there is something wrong with my profile posts....
Post by: bonniebeth on September 03, 2012, 18:59:16
 :lol: :lol: :lol: Hey, there's no right or wrong way to do this, just different. ;)
Title: Re: I think there is something wrong with my profile posts....
Post by: cowabounga on September 03, 2012, 19:24:06
 :)
Title: Re: I think there is something wrong with my profile posts....
Post by: Pynedor on September 03, 2012, 19:36:01
When the number is big, we tend to separate the figures three by three, with just a blank space between: 2 330 451, 50 would be read two million three hundred thirty thousand four hundred fifty one

Aye, but not everywhere in Europe uses the periods, commas, and spaces that way! But that definitely seems to be the source of this confusion. :lol: