Re: Programming Contest

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From: Tilman Schmidt
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 11:56

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In article <782297830snz@psyche.demon.co.uk>,
Peter H. M. Brooks <peter@psyche.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>SI allows either form. English speaking countries favour the decimal
>point, francophile ones the comma. The exception is South Africa where
        ^^^^^^^^^^^
Make that "everybody outside the late British Empire".  French isn't
the only language spoken eg. in continental Europe, even if memories
of the Napoleonic wars may lead some elder people in Great Britain
to mistake France for the whole continent.

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