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[Fatalah]

I'm so stupid. I have this statistics course and I don't know how to put commas on numbers.


174741990

47044879

75905403.71

273578576.3



would this be?


174,741,990

47,044,879 <------ this one looks weird.

75,905,403.71

273,578,576.3


should i start 3 over from the left of the decimal? ahhh

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

174,741,990

47,044,879

75,905,403.71

273,578,576.3


this is some kind of joke, right?

 

[hXc_thugg]

Comma after every three numbers starting from the right.

 

[yoshifumi]

are you serious?

edit: what hxc_thugg said

 

[Escape Goat]

you are in a statistics class and you don't know this? I am surprised.

 

[olimario]

 

[Matlock]

867-5309

 

[Fatalah]

i know, i'm stupid. but 47,044,879 looks so weird.

forty seven million, forty four thousand, eight hundred and seventy nine?

 

[CabbageRed]

i know, i'm stupid. but 47,044,879 looks so weird.

forty seven million, forty four thousand, eight hundred and seventy nine?

Yep. Are you dyslexic?

 

[olimario]

i know, i'm stupid. but 47,044,879 looks so weird.

forty seven million, forty four thousand, eight hundred and seventy nine?

Thats right. We say each grouping of 3 in hundreds followed by the proper suffix.
There are 2 on the left because it doesn't go up to hundreds there.

 

[themadcowtipper]

 

[tyguy20204]

"You're fucking dumb"

 

[alejob]

Now that we're at it, is it wrong to not put the commas on the numbers? I never do.

 

[demi]

quick someone tell me the difference between cannot and can not

 

[GaimeGuy]

Fatalah... how old are you? Just curious...

 

[Hitokage]

It looks weird because the numbers are left-justified.

 

[JPRaup]

well demi, since this is a pointless thread, Ill make it good, did you check out http://dvdtalk.com/

they have a feature on the new Nick Frost

 

[AirBrian]

quick someone tell me the difference between cannot and can not

Both cannot and can not are acceptable spellings, but the first is much more usual. You would use can not when the 'not' forms part of another construction such as 'not only'

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutspelling/cannot

 

[demi]

well demi, since this is a pointless thread, Ill make it good, did you check out http://dvdtalk.com/

they have a feature on the new Nick Frost

Now that's very cool!

BUY IT SUPPORT THE CAUSE

Thanks for that, I have other clips on my site, but I doubt many people are interested. I'm interviewing him on Saturday, can't wait.

I'm so giddy

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

Is this thread for real?

 

[Wario64]

Is this thread for real?

no kidding...what the shit?

 

[GaimeGuy]

 

[sonatinas]

Dude, they are all fucking with you. You have to use periods like this:

1.000.000

It is the proper way to do it in academic and business statistics. You wonder why there are weird terms and such; it is all a part of the language. Also, don't use decimal points.They are what we call trash numbers.

 

[Aruarian Reflection]

To be fair, maybe he's from Japan or China, where they count by ten thousands instead of thousands. Still, they have commas every 3 decimal places...

SHAME!

 

[alejob]

Actually in spanish we use dots to divide the numbers and a comma for the decimals. Just check your regional settings options on your computers.

I actually write numbers like this

12 123 123,23

but I've been tought several ways to do it.