Comments on: The culture of numbers http://www.stc-europe.org/2010/03/29/the-culture-of-numbers/ Society for Technical Communication's Europe SIG Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:58:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tweets that mention The culture of numbers « STC Europe SIG -- Topsy.comhttp://www.stc-europe.org/2010/03/29/the-culture-of-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-252 Tweets that mention The culture of numbers « STC Europe SIG -- Topsy.com Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:32:37 +0000 http://www.stc-europe.org/?p=421#comment-252 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by STC Europe SIG, STC INDIA. STC INDIA said: RT @stceusig: Did you forget about the numbers? "The culture of numbers" - http://bit.ly/9wRs0E #techcomm #localisation #l10n [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by STC Europe SIG, STC INDIA. STC INDIA said: RT @stceusig: Did you forget about the numbers? "The culture of numbers" – http://bit.ly/9wRs0E #techcomm #localisation #l10n [...]

]]> By: Karenhttp://www.stc-europe.org/2010/03/29/the-culture-of-numbers/comment-page-1/#comment-250 Karen Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:52:30 +0000 http://www.stc-europe.org/?p=421#comment-250 The decimal comma/period reminds me of a nightmare I once had. I worked in Europe for a company based in the US. My computer setup was for Europe. The colleagues who reviewed my work were in the US. I had a measurement for 156 and 1/4 MHz. Our style guide dictated US English, so it had to be written as 156.25 MHz. It took mental effort for me not to change that to 156,25 MHz. My engineers didn't like the period! Unfortunately, I had to change my computer setup to comply with this standard, otherwise the local settings would keep a comma when making diagrams in Visio! Most annoying. Keeps you on your toes. Thanks for bringing up this topic, Jen! The decimal comma/period reminds me of a nightmare I once had. I worked in Europe for a company based in the US. My computer setup was for Europe. The colleagues who reviewed my work were in the US. I had a measurement for 156 and 1/4 MHz. Our style guide dictated US English, so it had to be written as 156.25 MHz. It took mental effort for me not to change that to 156,25 MHz. My engineers didn’t like the period! Unfortunately, I had to change my computer setup to comply with this standard, otherwise the local settings would keep a comma when making diagrams in Visio! Most annoying. Keeps you on your toes.

Thanks for bringing up this topic, Jen!

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