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#! rnews 2159 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.misc Subject: Re: Unix too slow for a Web server? Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 07:04:48 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 27 Message-ID: <32521410.41A@www.play-hookey.com> References: <323ED0BD.222CA97F@pobox.com> <51pog8$1gj@newsbr.eunet.fr> <Dy0K58.MLv@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <32423719.6904CE4@julia.de> <51uo7m$bu9@magic.metawire.com> <R.3244780C.23B6AB75@aug.com> <01bbadcf$6ef66e60$8588b6cc@tzspc> <52mrfc$dr0@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:133120 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:28439 comp.infosystems.www.misc:44371 Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > Tim Smith (tzs@halcyon.com) wrote: > : Wayne <wroberts@aug.com> wrote in article <R.3244780C.23B6AB75@aug.com>... > > : The post that used "70.000" was from Europe. In Europe, they use period > : where we in > : the United States use comma in numbers, and they use comma where we use > : period. E.g., > : they would would write Pi*1000000 as 3.141.592,65358979323846264... where > : we would > : write 3,141,592.653589793238264... > > Or in any place that's smart enough to use metric (ie. most countries > except the US), it would've been 70_000. (The `_' being a space). I don't see that it matters which symbols get used, as long as the viewer recognizes the meaning. We already had two methods; you have added a third. People who need to work in more than one of these will have no trouble making the translation. It's not all *that* hard, after all! -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |