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Is using a comma as a number separator a cultural thing?

by UXStackExchange on July 17, 2012 in Devices, E-Commerce, Forms, General, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Interfaces, JavaScript, LA UX Jobs, Marketing, Material Design, Mobile, Personas, Product Strategy, Prototyping, Resources, Responsive Web Design, Stakeholder interviews, Testing, UI, Usability, User Experience, User Interaction, User Research, User testing, UX Design, UX Rockstars, UX Toolbox, Visual Design

In the US, it's very common to add a comma for numbers of more than 3 digits (ex: 1,000 for one thousand ; 1,000,000 for one million ; etc.).

In France though, we don't use this at all and commas are used for decimal numbers only (ex: 2,46).

Do you know which countries are following the US rule, and which countries are not? Where can I find resources on this?

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Is using a comma as a number separator a cultural thing?

by UXStackExchange on July 17, 2012 in Devices, E-Commerce, Forms, General, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Interfaces, JavaScript, LA UX Jobs, Marketing, Material Design, Mobile, Personas, Product Strategy, Prototyping, Resources, Responsive Web Design, Stakeholder interviews, Testing, UI, Usability, User Experience, User Interaction, User Research, User testing, UX Design, UX Rockstars, UX Toolbox, Visual Design

In the US, it's very common to add a comma for numbers of more than 3 digits (ex: 1,000 for one thousand ; 1,000,000 for one million ; etc.).

In France though, we don't use this at all and commas are used for decimal numbers only (ex: 2,46).

Do you know which countries are following the US rule, and which countries are not? Where can I find resources on this?

Tags: ux stack

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