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Originally Posted by rbarn
Everywhere but the U.S. uses "," where we use a "." when typing numbers.
We would type 20.000, where in Europe and Asia they would type 20,000
So that would read 20 point 000 and not 20 thousand.
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Us folks up here in Canada have to use the American system too (just to please you guys!)
This results in a mish-mash of metric/Imperial units in our everyday lives. I know my weight in pounds and kilograms, and my height in inches and centimetres (yes, I spell it that way too
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I don't use miles or feet for distance, but I will use inches for measuring things.
Currency wise, Canadians most commonly use a period to indicate the decimal point in currency.
So, $20,520 would mean twenty thousand, five hundred and twenty dollars
$20.52 would be twenty dollars and fifty two cents
$20,52 to me looks a bit strange, but I would recognize it as $20.52 as well
$20.521 to me would indicate (say) an exchange value to the tenth of a cent