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Ratbag123 | 14:36 Tue 18th Jul 2006 | Science
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what is the mark called that separates large numbers into groups on 3
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comma?
as far as I am aware- it is just called a comma as ML says- or you can be upmarket and call it a thousand seperator. It is used by convention- though some countries I believe use a space instead of a comma
Programs like Excel ..call it a 'thousand separator'
Well here in Greece (as in many other parts of europe), it's not a comma, it's a dot: the comma is used as the decimal point, so thousands separator is a more generic way of referring to it.
I believe the British way of separating numbers is to use a comma, and use a full stop for the separation of the number and the decimal numbers.

The continental way is the other way round.

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