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Victor Dewsbery
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Germany
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German to English
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Mar 15, 2023

How much is 20.525? Depending on your language and its numbering conventions, it may be slightly over twenty - or more than twenty thousand!
There is a bewildering variety of formats for writing out numbers, and attempts at standardisation have merely made things more complicated.
I have explored these conventions in my two languages (G... See more
How much is 20.525? Depending on your language and its numbering conventions, it may be slightly over twenty - or more than twenty thousand!
There is a bewildering variety of formats for writing out numbers, and attempts at standardisation have merely made things more complicated.
I have explored these conventions in my two languages (German and English) in a blog article:
http://language-mystery.blogspot.com/2023/03/translating-numbers-2-thousands-and.html
I hope this article is useful for some colleagues here. ▲ Collapse


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