Re: [Gretl-users] The usage of "," and ";" and "." in Europe
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Talha Yalta wrote:
So my question is: How common is the use of comma as the decimal
seperator in econometric texts in other European countries?
In this country, the recent tendency is to freely use the comma or the dot
and let the reader guess, which is not difficult in most cases. I am a bit
of a purist when it comes to languages and I'm all in favour of linguistic
diversity, but IMHO having different decimal separators by country is
stupid and inefficient. I don't see how a Turk, an Italian or a Frenchman
could make fun of Brits and Americans because of inches, pints and ounces
and, at the same time, defend the comma instead of the dot.
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti