[X4U] Update Numbering

Eugene list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net
Fri Jul 6 18:10:35 PDT 2007


On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 12:47:14PM CDT, Doug McNutt <douglist at macnauchtan.com> wrote:
: >Richard Gilmore wrote:
: >>
: >>But mathematically 10.4.1 and 10.4.10 are the same amount.
: 
: There is actually a lot to all of the dotted decimal stuff that's strange.

And in contrast, most countries (especially European) use
the comma as a decimal separator.  So those nations would
see "10.4.1" and "10.4.10" as two strings, not two oddball
fractional decimal numbers.


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