Comment on Europe is ready to ditch US tech for private alternatives

• Mihies@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Your eyesight is 20/20

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  • akmur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I was doubting my own sight yes

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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  https://www.heise.de/en/background/Microsoft-Dependency-Federal-Government-Pays-near-500-Million-Euros-in-One-Year-11171050.html

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  yes, german has a very weird way of writing numbers, where . is replaced by , and , is replaced by .

  So, in US numbers, that would be EUR 274,091,361.75

  It has confused many people already. It should be made more consistent internationally. I propose all use the US format of 274091361.75 because that’s already used in programming and so it’s widespread.

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  • themurphy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “Very weird way of writing numbers”

    You mean like in all of Europe (excluding UK and Ireland) and latin America? It’s only english speaking countries and some Asian countries that separate with ,

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