Recently I received e-mail a French colleague, saying the client side claims € 13.215.
I thought, pro, also claims 13 euros, and play house, like Taobao thought it was a small two ah, then do not complain.
And it can really be regarded as precise customers, ah, after three decimal places are enumerated,. It switched to want to taxes may be added to the list now.
Later, a discussion of the technical specifications, there newspaper 2.800kg, always felt wrong, according to my algorithm should be 2800kg fishes, so write messages in the past asked the other party is not less written three zero. The other said, no, ah, I'm talking to 2800kg.
Messy.
Americans dealing with a little more, and rarely deal with the Europeans, not very clear that they set.
After much, I finally know that they have been confined to the existing mindset, thinking that the world is unified.
Little do they know they are at this point, in fact, we spaced the thousand of comma.
Therefore, € 13.215 in fact, is € 13,215, instead of 13 euros, but 13,000 euros, pro!
I am sure you will ask, how do they decimals?
By commas.
For example, they are our 1,23 1.23.
So for them the comma and period of usage, and we completely reversed.
Sort out:
123,456.78 Jiu
China 123,456.789
Europe 123.456,789
If you are a student just arrived in Europe, written on the rental contract 600.000 Euro in January it made a big loss, this house can be bought.
Buy things online, you will find it strange why an iPhone to 80,000 euros.
Because of the relatively high value of the euro, 10000 Euro is something unusual, so rarely need to see a period of price items. But we go to Vietnam tour, you can see huge Vietnamese Dong said with a period, because Vietnam is a former French colony, also follows the French habit. Below this in the end is 500,000 VND or VND 500 yuan?
Travel to Europe to carry cash beyond a certain limit is to declare, you may see more than € 10.000 to declare such an approach, it will not quite understand. There is also a foreigner online clarification:
In addition to Europe, the wording of other countries is kind of how it?
Look at this picture below, summarizes the decimal point represent the country by periods and commas.
We can see the following rules:
The pan-blue camp: mainly China and English-speaking countries and their younger brother, in addition to the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other native English-speaking countries, as well as India, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and South Korea, the Philippines and so on.
泛绿阵营：刚好和中国相反的，主要是欧洲国家（不包括英国）及其前殖民地，如南美、中美洲。
本人其他高赞回答（欢迎关注公众号 史蒂芬的专栏（ID：stehouse）获取更多同款文章）。