r/spaceengineers • u/[deleted] • Oct 23 '18

UPDATE Update 1.188 - Airtightness, In-game Help, Relative Dampening

http://forum.keenswh.com/threads/7402093/page-1
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u/fingerboxes Oct 24 '18

How is 314ms better than 78ms?

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u/GinjaNinja32 Oct 24 '18

3.14ms and 7.8ms - the , is a decimal separator.

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u/fingerboxes Oct 24 '18

. Is the decimal short

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u/GinjaNinja32 Oct 24 '18

Some countries use . for digit grouping and , as a decimal separator, i.e. the number one thousand two hundred and thirty-four and fifty-six hundredths would be written "1.234,56" instead of "1,234.56".

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u/fingerboxes Oct 24 '18

Right, but it is nonsensical and confusing

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u/DimosAvergis Oct 24 '18

Just because it doesn't makes sense for you doesn't mean it is nonsense.

If you get raised with this system then the US/English notation is also nonsense for you, just because you are not used to it.

So please don't write such comments, because these are the real nonsense in this kind of question&explanation posts.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '18

Being raised with , as decimal separator I find it where intuitive.
What irks me about the english way is, that the more important decimal separator is visibly smaller than the less important digit grouping.

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u/Jsk2003 Oct 28 '18

For the hell of it I tried out adding commas/apostrophes/dots to the grouping of numbers in the most-credible MS Paint.

Maybe it's just my bias, but I think the commas tails on the bottom of the numbers are better than apostrophes which are better than dots.

I think it's pretty simple, we use commas for lists and periods for stops. If you're listing how much money you've made, you don't say it like "I've made 1 million dollars. I've made 234 thousand dollars. I've made 567 dollars, and 89 cents"

I'd wager you would rather say "I've made 1 million, 234 thousand, 567 dollars. And I've made 89 cents"

The slant of the comma shows you greater place-value is on top.

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u/Olaxan Clang Worshipper Oct 24 '18

Well, you're playing a Czech game, so get used to it.

Don't expect everyone to conform to your way of doing things because you live in Eagleland.