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Europe is ready to ditch US tech for private alternatives (proton.me)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

are those millions? am I reading that right?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (1 child)

    yes, german has a very weird way of writing numbers, where . is replaced by , and , is replaced by .

    So, in US numbers, that would be EUR 274,091,361.75

    It has confused many people already. It should be made more consistent internationally. I propose all use the US format of 274,091,361.75 because that's already used in programming and so it's widespread.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    "Very weird way of writing numbers"

    You mean like in all of Europe (excluding UK and Ireland) and latin America? It's only english speaking countries and some Asian countries that separate with ,

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