Timeline for isn't number localization just unnecessary?
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| Mar 9, 2017 at 18:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://upload.wikimedia.org/ with https://upload.wikimedia.org/ | |
| Nov 3, 2012 at 3:38 | comment | added | authchir | Of course, Canada and Australia also have a lot of empty space. Actually, it's worse than that. In Canada, the format is not a country wide standard: it is province specific. In Québec, we would write 1 000,00 $ and use ISO 8601 as date format. I imagine this could be the case in other countries that have differents level of government. | |
| May 12, 2011 at 7:41 | comment | added | Andrew Grimm | For those curious about the red <s>states</s> countries, they use something called a Momayyez. | |
| May 11, 2011 at 17:48 | comment | added | Petruza | I think the decimal comma is more popular when counting countries, but with USA, china & india in, it definitely looses its place to the point in terms of population | |
| May 11, 2011 at 13:07 | comment | added | Andy | @ Mike Dunlavey but thats a diffrent se sites problem. and we might be at the problem stage. | |
| May 11, 2011 at 13:03 | comment | added | Mike Dunlavey | @Andy: I'm afraid you're right. Afraid because we will have bigger problems than commas. | |
| May 11, 2011 at 7:20 | comment | added | Andy | @Mike Dunlavey but if we keep expanding like we do in population, we will have to fill them green emptys. the situation might turn around. vartec might have been thinking ahead to that. | |
| May 11, 2011 at 1:30 | comment | added | Mike Dunlavey | Also, not to be picky, but the area of the green parts are much larger in proportion to their population. (Greenland, Brazil, Siberia) Of course, Canada and Australia also have a lot of empty space. | |
| May 11, 2011 at 1:27 | comment | added | Mike Dunlavey | Problem is, the number syntax is entrenched in most computer languages and some widely-used file formats, like comma-separated-values. I've had to wrestle with this stuff, and nobody's really happy with the result. | |
| May 10, 2011 at 22:56 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | @Andy, missing a lot of Africa, but I suppose China and Japan are a fair trade. | |
| May 10, 2011 at 19:28 | comment | added | rjzii | @Jimmy C - A yes, those trillions should be billions. | |
| May 10, 2011 at 19:23 | comment | added | Jimmy Collins | @Rob z I believe you mean billion, not trillion? | |
| May 10, 2011 at 16:19 | comment | added | Andy | the blue seems to look alot like old british colonies. | |
| May 10, 2011 at 16:17 | comment | added | rjzii | But are they the minority in terms of population? China has a population of about 1.5 trillion and India has a population of about 1.2 trillion, and thus make up about 40% of the 6.7 trillion people on the planet. | |
| May 10, 2011 at 16:03 | history | answered | vartec | CC BY-SA 3.0 |