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he's referring to the endless confusion between american and european style of writing numbers.
Americans write 1,000 but Europeans write 1.000 to indicate one thousand. And then they do the opposite for decimal places -- Americans write 1.5 but Europeans write 1,5 to indicate one-and-a-half. trust the French on these matters, they knew what they were doing. Like the SI.
10 000 = ten thousand 10,000 = ten, to the precision of one thousandth. Dots are for dates or ordering numbers then. Thanks... It's the first time something from frnace is not directly trahsed out here.. hum... And for more precision, . or , are used in the same way in France.. Adding spaces to enlight 10� powers is enough to ease number reading: it is less complicated, and generates less misunderstanding... thought.. :P
Damn near killed 'em.
Anyway Kell, I thought you guys didn't consider yourselves part of Europe. I refuse to distinguish between residents of "The UK" which I also call "Britain" and "England" with no understanding of the differences :)
The Scottish are led by Mad Max, they rise up against a tyrannical English rule of a syphilis ridden king and his shit hunter son. Mad Max puts a bun in the oven of the new queen then gets disemboweled.
Further info: The Irish are led by a schizophrenic alcoholic who can dimension door across the sea to bring in an army of Erin whenever he likes. There weren't any Welsh that I remember, bestiality being frowned upon in mainstream motion, uh, history. You'll be OK on that as long as you don't mix up the Scots with the English. I don't think the Welsh would like it.
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