Notice to all clients using comma decimals

[Jonny69]

Notice to all clients:

We are sick of you using commas for decimals in your numbers. Commas are for a short pause or break during a sentence, not for decimal points in numbers. They are called decimal places for a reason. Using commas for decimal points causes us nothing but grief. We invented them and it's our product, we are right. Well actually the Arabs invented them.

I have worked out an alternative, from now on you shall not use any decimal places at all and you will round all numbers up. This will have the following positive effects: 1) you will appear to increase your income because everything will be rounded up and 2) you will over value and over-inflate your currency against the Pound.

Once your currency is suitably devalued due to your incompentent runaway inflation you will realise just how worthless you are and that Britain is great. You will return to a farming living with some kind of feudal system and we will crush you on our regular crusades as we have done in the past.

Regards

Jon

[Chuckles]

They are pretty useful actually. The make it easier to see what a large number is ;)

[Darrin]

I do hope you're talking about something like one hundred sixty quid and thirty five pence being written as 160.35 versus 160,35. Because if you're talking about the comma in four thousand three hundred and twenty one quid being written 4,321.00 then I'll have to argue a small point with you... :p

[Admiral Huddy]

They are pretty useful actually. The make it easier to see what a large number is ;)
yep, and in banking terms, there is no such thing as a decimal.. It's refered to as Spot i.e. 1200.10 = One thousand, two hundred spot 10.

:D

[Jonny69]

Not the commas that are used to break up the number, I'm talking about using a comma instead of a decimal point like those filthy sausage eating, cabbage pickling, VW driving Germans.

Ze Germans write 1,000,000.00 like this: 1.000.000,00

It's nonsense. They should be invaded and their capitalistic rights taken away from them. Then the Russians can march in and finish the job.

[Flibster]

They royally bugger up CSV files too.

[Mark]

Most european countries (certainly eurozone countries) use , as a decimal, so in european terms we're somewhat outnumbered. :(

[lostkat]

All of our drawings in millimeters have a , instead of the .

Inches have .'s

[Jonny69]

No-one is going to justify this to me. Foreigners are stupid.

Foreign accountants that use our software are the stupidest. I thought to be an accountant you had to be clever?

[Mark]

Nope, it requires clever programmers, not clever accountants. At least on Windows I'm perfectly capable of writing software that works either way, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. :)

[Goose]

:cool:

[Feek]

Most european countries (certainly eurozone countries) use , as a decimal, so in european terms we're somewhat outnumbered. :(

I don't care. They're wrong. We're right.

Not the commas that are used to break up the number, I'm talking about using a comma instead of a decimal point like those filthy sausage eating, cabbage pickling, VW driving Germans.

Ze Germans write 1,000,000.00 like this: 1.000.000,00

It's nonsense. They should be invaded and their capitalistic rights taken away from them. Then the Russians can march in and finish the job.

Jonny, you are my God, inferior only to the omnipotent Lopez. I agree entirely, it's dumb, stupid, wrong and reaches epic levels of fail.

[Wossi]

No-one is going to justify this to me. Foreigners are stupid.

Foreign accountants that use our software are the stupidest. I thought to be an accountant you had to be clever?

I hear you. It throws me everytime I get an invoice form our Italian suppliers, i.e. the invoice amount be €15.000,54 :huh:

[Mark]

I don't care. They're wrong. We're right.
Quick! Close the borders! Keep those silly ideas out! :p ;D

[killerkebab]

Ze Germans write 1,000,000.00 like this: 1.000.000,00Are you sure they don't write it 1 000 000,00? At least that is how it was in my Maths lessons in France back in my old secondary school.

That said, I used to write 1 000 000.00 and didn't get marked down or anything. Hand written it doesn't make a difference, however I agree that in a computer program it starts to create problems.

[Jonny69]

That's because it was in FRANCE you wally :D

Different people there. They eat cheese, build towers, drink wine, build Renaults, probably have long ovens because they bake funny shaped bread, live down the end of a tunnel under the sea, ride bikes and wear berrets and striped t-shirts. At work they wear blue overalls, strike a lot and smoke.

[Feek]

*poke*
You missed the fact that they all have strings of onions around their necks at all times ;D