I think there is something wrong with my profile posts....

[cowabounga]

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 

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! 

[bonniebeth]

So nothing divides the thousand from the hundred? I would think that would make it difficult to read a really long number.

[Rasputin]

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  then the change

twelve million, three hundred forty five thousand, six hundred seventy eight dollars & ninty cents

[cowabounga]

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! 

[bonniebeth]

  Hey, there's no right or wrong way to do this, just different.

[cowabounga]

 

[Pynedor]

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.