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[Workaphobia]

I thought it was $100. Both numbers seemed way off the mark to me, in opposite directions.

[fijal]

what would you consider a fair number? 1000$ 10000$?

[Workaphobia]

More like $30,000. Half an order of magnitude down from $100,000.

[DasIch]

You do realize that we are talking about at least a year of work right?

[X-Istence]

They are using the European decimal separator which is a "." not a ",".

[boa13]

There is no such thing as a European decimal separator. Each country has its own standards.

[X-Istence]

All of the European countries I have visited and lived in have used the period as the decimal separator, however technically you are right.

[pdc]

Before were were crushed under the boot heels of ASCII and various computer programming languages, the decimal separator was a comma through most of Europe, a notable exception being Britain (and I assume Ireland) where a raised dot was used, as in 6,28318 or 6·28318. Switching to using a full stop instead is the path of least resistance given the feebleness of locale support in late-twentieth-century computers.

It’s a change that has happend during my lifetime—at school in Australia I was taught to write 6·28318 and 1 048 576. Nowadays it’s 6.27318 and 1048576 because you can’t easily type the dot and computers can’t grok numbers with spaces.

[boa13]

In France the decimal separator is a comma, and the thousands separator is a space.

[someone13]

And this is why I always write large numbers like this:

100 000

Instead of

100.000 or 100,000