From: Hans Aberg (haberg-1@telia.com)
Date: Wed Mar 09 2011 - 08:04:08 CST
On 9 Mar 2011, at 12:56, André Szabolcs Szelp wrote:
>> Dots are also used for IPv4, but it becomes ambiguous if one needs a fractional part.
>
> Oh, quite a lot of people use "," for fractional parts...
The 22nd General Conference on Weights and Measures (2003) declared to use either a "." or a "," (see page below, section "History", last paragraph). Admitting both though creates an ambiguity of 1,2 interpreted as a list of two numbers 1, 2 or a single number 1.2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark
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