I am in Canada and I know things work differently in Europe, specifically where we use periods, they use commas, etc. I have a sheet explaining land and a purchase price offer and I don't know what it means. The properties are 1.570 m2, 6.181 m2 and 3.421 m2; the price is EUR 0,75 per m2.
Is that 75 cents or euro's and is that really 1 metre or is it actually 1570 metres?
2006-11-04 17:35:29 · 4 answers · asked by RM55 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Hi RM, you're right that the characters are swapped around in Germany (and most of continental Europe). The first property is fifteen hundred and seventy square metres. And the price is 75 eurocents per square metre.
I just had this same problem figuring out some currency values for Icelandic kroner.
2006-11-04 17:43:32 · answer #1 · answered by TriniSalt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In Europe in numbers the periods and comma's have been swapped.
1,234.56 is in Europe 1.234,56
Only the English language using countries use the USA way
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2006-11-04 18:19:59 · answer #2 · answered by Thermo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Comma means that you have a portion of a whole. Like, one and 84 hundredths is 1,84.
In the US and canada, we'd write 1.84.
They use decimal points to divide thousands. So one thousand is 1,000 in the US, and 1.000 in germany. One million is 1,000,000 to us, and 1.000.000 to them.
2006-11-04 17:44:37 · answer #3 · answered by Brian L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-11-04 17:36:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋