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In article <Cy6EIL.A87@gb1.sema.de> ts@gb1.sema.de "Tilman Schmidt" writes:

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> From: ts@gb1.sema.de (Tilman Schmidt)
> Subject: Re: Programming Contest
> Message-ID: <Cy6EIL.A87@gb1.sema.de>
> Organization: Sema Group Koeln
> References: <CxK5F6.Co5@cs.vu.nl> <37ijer$foc@alpha.epas.utoronto.ca>
>  <1994Oct13.152008.14366@animo.eurokom.ie> <782297830snz@psyche.demon.co.uk>
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> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 11:56:43 GMT
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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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Peter H. M. Brooks