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Originally Posted by ravingdavis
I thought a point at half hight meant a continuation of a pattern.
A decimal (we use a decimalised currency) always appears at the bottom...
Them daft Euro lot use different standards.
ps I pay nothing for my MoT because the AA kindly cover mine  |
It would appear we are both correct to some extent. I just found this on tinternet
"In the nations of the
British Empire, although the period could be used in typewritten material, the point (
middle dot: ·), which can also be called an
interpunct (often referred to as the decimal point) was preferred for the decimal separator in printing technologies that could accommodate it.
[3] This had the advantage of reducing confusion in the countries that used the period to separate groups of digits and it was generally clearer in handwriting (particularly when writing on a dotted baseline as on many forms)."
As my family were brought up in the wonderful British Empire, it's no small wonder I was taught to use an interpunct, they also taught me to use it at junior school when we went decimal in the early 70s.