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Decimal Comma


The symbol used in continental Europe, most of North and South America (with the exception of the United States and Canada), and most of Africa to denote a decimal point, for example 3,14159....


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Decimal Point

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References

Wells, D. The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, p. 80, 1986.

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Decimal Comma

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Decimal Comma." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/DecimalComma.html

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