Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug

• Droechai@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You are correct, I used the wrong one for my region but according to Swedish Wikipedia (bad source) the US and UK uses a . If that is incorrect I’m happy to be corrected!

  sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimaltecken

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  • Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    LOL. That’s not what I meant. Unfortunately it is what I said.

    What I should have said is, if you are going to use a number after a decimal point (or comma in Europe) then why not use the right number. My bad.

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    • Droechai@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      A very good question, I think it was in an old DIY wood crafts book for older kids. I’m gonna dig through my book boxes to see if I find it :) Any excuse to go through them!

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