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Frequency error in scientific notation
not1xor1:
--- Quote from: KE5FX on February 02, 2019, 06:50:16 pm ---I write software that's used all over the world, and I steadfastly refuse to use commas as decimal points, because that's both historically nonstandard and intensely stupid.
One thing I like to do is write long numbers with spaces instead of periods or commas. 10.000 000 001 MHz is easy enough to interpret as an error of +1E-10. 10.000000001 MHz is hard to read at a glance and consequently more error-prone than necessary. 10.000,000,001 MHz is just a visual mess. 10,000.000.001 MHz is a catastrophe looking for a place to happen.
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"Commas" is neither "historically non standard" nor "intensely stupid".
ISO-8601 also stipulates normative notation based on SI conventions, adding that the comma is preferred over the full stop.
Beisdes that you are a bad programmer. Usually most OSs provide APIs to interface to the different national standards.
Hard coding decimal and thousands separators is really dumb and/or just another symptom of that sick "America first" attitude.
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