Decimal separator: Difference between revisions

| style="text-align:right;"| {{gaps|1|234|567'''<nowiki>.</nowiki>'''89}} || Canada (English-speaking; official), China,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://openstd.samr.gov.cn/bzgk/gb/newGbInfo?hcno=F5DAC3377DA99C8D78AE66735B6359C7|title=国家标准GB/T 15835-2011出版物上数字用法|publisher=国家标准全文公开系统|access-date=2 April 2024}}</ref> Estonia (currency numbers), Hong Kong (in education), Mexico, Namibia, South Africa (English-speaking; unofficial), Sri Lanka, Switzerland (in federal texts for currency numbers only<ref name="bk_admin_ch">{{cite web |publisher=Schweizer Bundeskanzlei |url=https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/medienmitteilungen.msg-id-49648.html |title=Schreibweisungen, 2nd edition 2013 |date=June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128123857/http://www.bk.admin.ch/dokumentation/sprachen/04915/05016/index.html?lang=de&download=NHzLpZeg7t,lnp6I0NTU042l2Z6ln1acy4Zn4Z2qZpnO2Yuq2Z6gpJCHe393gWym162epYbg2c_JjKbNoKSn6A-- |archive-date= 28 January 2015}}</ref>), United Kingdom (in education), United States (in education). SI style (English version) but SI doesn't include currency.

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| style="text-align:right;"| 1'''<nowiki>.</nowiki>'''234'''<nowiki>.</nowiki>'''567'''<nowiki>,</nowiki>'''89 || Austria, Belgium (Dutch), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil (informal and in [[technology]]), Chile, Colombia, Croatia (in [[bookkeeping]] and technology),<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Točka |website=Hrvatski pravopis |publisher=[[Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics]] |url=http://pravopis.hr/pravilo/tocka/55/ |access-date=2022-07-28}}</ref> Denmark, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Latin America (informal), Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia, Spain (used until 2010, inadvisable use according to the ''[[Royal Spanish Academy|RAE]]'' and [[Spanish National Research Council|''CSIC'']]),{{efn|... when writing numbers more than four figures, these will be grouped into threes, starting from the right, and separating the groups by whitespace. (Exceptions: Never written with periods, commas or white separation numbers that refer to years, pages, verses, urban roads, postal codes, legal articles, decrees or laws.)<ref name=test>{{cite book |title=Diccionario panhispánico de dudas |url=http://lema.rae.es/dpd/srv/search?key=n%FAmeros#2 |url-status=dead |access-date=16 January 2014 |archive-date=18 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140118023207/http://lema.rae.es/dpd/srv/search?key=n%FAmeros#2 }}</ref>}}<ref name=Ortografia>{{cite book |title=Ortografía de la lengua española |quote=For the purpose of promoting a process tending towards unification, the use of the point as decimal separator is recommended.(2.2.1.2.1) |url=http://aplica.rae.es/orweb/cgi-bin/v.cgi?i=KnJfwDWVQQYgmiw,}}</ref> Turkey, Uruguay, Vietnam.

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*In Belgium (Dutch), Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Sweden and much of Europe: {{gaps|1|234|567'''<nowiki>,</nowiki>'''89}} or 1'''<nowiki>.</nowiki>'''234'''<nowiki>.</nowiki>'''567'''<nowiki>,</nowiki>'''89. In [[handwriting]], 1'''<nowiki>˙</nowiki>'''234'''<nowiki>˙</nowiki>'''567'''<nowiki>,</nowiki>'''89 is also seen, but never in Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia or Sweden. In Italy, a straight apostrophe is also used in handwriting: 1'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>'''234'''<nowiki>'</nowiki>'''567'''<nowiki>,</nowiki>'''89. In the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium, the points thousands separator is used, and is preferred for currency amounts, but the space is recommended by some style guides, mostly in technical writing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://taaladvies.net/taal/advies/vraag/1/10000000_10_000_000/|title=10.000.000&nbsp;/&nbsp;10&nbsp;000&nbsp;000|author=Taalunieversum|access-date=1 September 2017}}</ref>

*In Estonia, currency numbers often use a dot "'''<nowiki>.</nowiki>'''" as the decimal separator, and a space as a thousands separator. This is most visible on shopping receipts and in documents that also use other numbers with decimals, such as measurements. This practice is used to better distinguish between prices and other values with decimals. An older convention uses dots to separate thousands (with commas for decimals) &mdash; this older practice makes it easier to avoid word breaks with larger numbers.