From: "Gerhard Fiedler"

>  snip..

> While pretty much all of continental Europe uses the decimal comma, there
> are many countries outside Europe that do so, too. Of course every country
> that has been occupied at one point or other by the British or had strong
> ties to British or US-American cultures in the early stages of industrial
> development has a high probability to have adopted the decimal point.
>


In Brasil we use comma for decimal (i.e. 12.345.443,892). Now after spending 
5 years here in the USA I get confused when I see a number formated like 
this. I'm starting to think in inches, feet and miles, but temperature is 
still in C.

Cheers

Padu 

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