RedundancyDoneWell at 2024-02-04 16:29:01+00:00 ID: kow8gdb

Using ',' as a decimal separator is the standard in the western world. The only exceptions I know of, are the English speaking countries.

Excel and bank statements shouldn't be a problem unless you do something wrong. The numbers are stored in Excel as floats, no matter if you are in Denmark or in an English speaking country. The '.' and ',' are just formatting to the user, and it is user-configurable too.

The only problem with Excel and ',' is CSV files, because Microsoft had the insane idea to make those locale dependent, which they should never have done.

Leoparden91 at 2024-02-04 16:20:18+00:00 ID: kow70ur

How slow is the person speaking since you need to write down the number mid-sentence? ;)

Well almost of Europe uses comma as decimal separator, except for UK and Ireland, so maybe it's not us who are in the wrong here.

Adept_Ad3267 at 2024-02-04 16:17:03+00:00 ID: kow6hfy

Nice ragebait. Go ahead and post this shit on a German sub as well

monsterafan10 at 2024-02-04 16:16:36+00:00 ID: kow6esf

Dear friend.

German people disagree.

Plennhar at 2024-02-04 16:40:01+00:00 ID: kowa96r

I really enjoy not being able to write a number down until the person is done speaking.

True. It's dumb.

And who thought that using commas (,) instead of periods (.) for decimal numbers was a good idea? How am I supposed to open my bank statement in Excel?

Excel should automatically convert it to whatever decimal system you have in your settings. If it doesn't you can always use CTRL+H to replace many characters at once.

IMO it's not that big a deal, but I prefer dots myself as well.

Past_Reading_6651 at 2024-02-04 16:42:53+00:00 ID: kowaq6z

Our numbers are divinely inspired, perfectly tuned to the vibrations of the univserse. What is this blasphemy?

LeakyLeadPipes at 2024-02-04 16:59:17+00:00 ID: kowbn4h

We don't care what you think.

exorah at 2024-02-04 16:48:17+00:00 ID: kowc51d

Fuldstændig enig. Vi er sku helt galt på den her.

just_anotjer_anon at 2024-02-04 16:51:14+00:00 ID: kowca41

It's just an olden way of doing it.

The Arabic language does the same. Remember my teacher going by, numbers gonna be tough

Then explains the rules and I just start chuckling. Yep, that's the same as Danish

But also, how can you not start writing the number down mid sentence?

They're mostly said in order, it's just the last number said before the second last one 🤷🏻

The numbers that's weird, is the half way to twenties. Like halvtreds, halvfjerds, halvfems

Old-Pianist3485 at 2024-02-04 16:22:29+00:00 ID: kowet9w

We wanted to make life harder for you specifically /s

twobakko at 2024-02-04 16:51:14+00:00 ID: kowq04m

One solution, one way ticket to where ever.

MoonwalkingDucktape at 2024-02-04 17:07:06+00:00 ID: kowfmwg

As an aside, Tom Scott has a great video (on Brady Haran's channel) on numbers and localization, he mentions Denmark as well. Yeah, we're fucking crazy. Worth a watch.

MyRoomAteMyRoomMate at 2024-02-04 16:48:17+00:00 ID: kowibd1

So many thin skinned people in here. Lighten up, it was obviously a light hearted post poking a little fun.

tuekappel at 2024-02-04 16:28:05+00:00 ID: kowsif8

This sub has become a place to drop in and rage about stupid Danish habits.. Get with it, or leave.

AntagonizedDane at 2024-02-04 18:12:06+00:00 ID: kox347s

Sounds like a skill issue.

cipherphobia at 2024-02-04 18:34:47+00:00 ID: kox3wgf

I'm not going to defend anything here, because you are right. But it is not as stupid as Britain's measuring weight in stones. Whoever had the idea of measuring weight in an arbitrary unit such as a stone, which can literally weigh anywhere between 1 nanogram and 4.6 million metric tonnes? That's fucking stupid. I literally have to reach outside of our planet if I want to find a unit with a higher weight variability.

Warm_Wet_Circle at 2024-02-04 16:52:03+00:00 ID: kowybqd

Just wait till you hear about the french numbers. This one is hilarious.

Still not sure what is worse, but i guess the danish numbers are worse. But as a dane i never thought about it, just did it. I think i was pretty old before i even realised it "was a problem".

ColaMalurt at 2024-02-04 21:15:44+00:00 ID: koxrrdh

We don't have a shitty numbering system; it's just that all the other countries are shit at their numbering system.

/s (or?)

zadye at 2024-02-04 16:51:14+00:00 ID: kowtz4r

Vil du slås nu?

PeachVinegar at 2024-02-04 16:22:05+00:00 ID: kow7bht

This is obvious bait

silversprings99 at 2024-02-04 16:22:29+00:00 ID: kow7dro

Why is this tagged humor? You're just being offensive, not funny

rombo-q at 2024-02-04 16:28:05+00:00 ID: kow8avp

Simply to confuse Swedish people.

rogerrongway at 2024-02-04 16:19:45+00:00 ID: kow6xgo

Well, it's better than imperial measurements. Just saying.

HolgerDK at 2024-02-04 16:14:45+00:00 ID: kow63za

The easy solution is to not use our way of writing numbers.

Rare-Victory at 2024-02-04 17:12:01+00:00 ID: kowm6p6

And who thought that using commas (,) instead of periods (.) for decimal numbers was a good idea?

It's the English speaking peoples fault... They are doing it opposite than the rest of the Germanic world.

How am I supposed to open my bank statement in Excel?

CSV files are bad...

At work the use of decimal separator is hit and miss.

• E-mails are a mess
• We have IT systems with English UI, that switch to commas on a PC with Danish locale.
• I have also for some reason seen the opposite.

I don't look at the language when deciphering a number, I look at the number of digits following a separator.

1.50 One and a half

1,50 One and a half

1.500 One thousand five-hundreds

1,500 One thousand five-hundreds

Iskaru at 2024-02-04 17:27:21+00:00 ID: kownas5

Yeah, it really is pretty bad, huh. Some have even argued that it hurts children's learning that the numbers are so illogical. It's also pretty silly considering how easy it is to fix. I mean, the history behind numbers like 90 being derived from "halvfemsindetyvende" is pretty crazy, but ultimately that's not the problem at all. The problem is just that we read e.g. 92 as "two and ninety" instead of "ninety and two". We could simply decide to reverse that and our number system would suddenly be totally logical.

Oh, and about the use of commas instead of periods, I don't have a strong preference really, the annoying part is just that not all countries do the same. Trust me, I've had problems with Excel because of that, too.

Medical-Chipmunk2070 at 2024-02-04 19:00:05+00:00 ID: koxa6om

Get with  the programme or move.  Use tools to convert all commas to dots and reverse. 

Beautiful-Narwhal672 at 2024-02-04 18:34:47+00:00 ID: koxikh8

At least we're not like the US:

ifailedinthelab at 2024-02-04 16:52:03+00:00 ID: koxl4ge

The (,)/(.) is a major issue. Every machine generated data uses 'American' annotation with dots as decimal separator, but manually annotations often are done with a comma. This has led to some data challenges in my line of work.

Lindylium at 2024-02-04 19:33:20+00:00 ID: koxm7dj

Lets avoid using Excel as an example of something that our nomenclature causes a problem in, shall we.

I mean, is there *anything* that Excel does *not* interpret as a date really?

blue-eye-ginger at 2024-02-04 20:10:22+00:00 ID: koxo2v3

For it's our way. Ether take it or go home to whatever. Thank you

jsf88 at 2024-02-04 21:22:18+00:00 ID: koya8cu

It must be hard being that stupid, going through life.

BobsLakehouse at 2024-02-04 19:00:05+00:00 ID: kozog0b

The number system is perfectly fine. A language is boring if it just foregoes the occassional oddity.

Besides it is always such a fun time to teach or numbers to foreigners.

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csrster at 2024-02-04 21:15:44+00:00 ID: kozytjj

I've been saying this for years - at least since I moved here from Norway :-) I do remember my Danish-born kids struggling with numbers in early folkeskole and wondering why we put them through this nonsense.