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Notice how in US/UK English a comma, and not a point, is pla ced as a 3-digi t group separator. Notice how in UK/US English a decimal point, and not a comma, is placed as separator before the cents (the fractional part of the decimal number). In German: „EUR 999 ,50“ or „EUR 2 ,5 Millionen“.For the sake of clarity I have boiled this complex topic down to the following rules for German and US/UK English when it comes to writing figures, e.g. Duden or DIN standard DIN 5008), and in the different versions of English (UK, Canada, South Africa, etc.). Please note that there are different conventions when it comes to writing numbers, both in German (e.g. In both German and in US/UK English, commas and points are used they are, however, placed differently in the two languages. When writing figures, German speakers sometimes forget that the symbols used are different in German and English. One of the most common mistakes I see when proofreading bilingual annual reports (German/English) is that the periods and commas are placed incorrectly as delimiters in numbers and figures.
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