Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170729051211/@comment-25936766-20170801002125

PisceanWaterbender wrote:

Perhaps that's why I hated physics so much this year....too many decimals to handle. Oh, you know nothing, Fish Water.

Here in Venezuela, we use a comma to indicate decimals, and periods to mark numbers over 100. Like, "0,00878", and "1.000.000".

In the US, they do it the other way around. And because everyone sucks up to the US, everytime I see a calculation on the internet, they do it the US way.

Result is, I see numbers like "100,098", and must mentally remind myself that the "098" part are NOT decimals.

But because I'm studying engineering, that means a lot of numerical calculations all the time, all doing it the Venezuelan way. And thus I cannot just "unlearn to learn" to get used to the US's way.