What's with the apostrophe?
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@haitch said in What's with the apostrophe?:
@FlippyCakes It's how the Europeans do numeric separators: so instead of 10,000 it's 10'000
I'm European, but we don't use the apostrophe as a separator, we just use a space, as in 1 000 000 (Norway).
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@Propagandalf i have seen it used somewhere but dont remember where :) In lithuania we also use space :D
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In Portugal there is no correct way to do it LOL
We use space, comma or apostrophe hhahaha
But mostly space or apostrophe, comma confuses sometimes...
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@Propagandalf @LithStud @gpedro - Yeah, I should have been clearer, it is the norm in some European countries.
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Hi Guys,
I'm working in EU and travelling in 5 differents country for my company.
What can I say about this :- Avoid the comma use, in EU the comma is really often used to separate numbers and decimal numbers.
- The standard practice is to use space like that : 1 000 000 or 1 254
Ben
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the apostrophe has caused me problems in the past when programming systems. ive also had on numerous occasions the periods replaced with commas in values i was submitting to web related api's that ended up not working or submitting data due to an unexpected char in a value. some places have the comma as the decimal separator and some the thousand.
apostrophes are even worse in SQL applications as it specifies the beginning and end of string data
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Dont worry about apostrophe :) it shows up only in UI, numbers are stored in database as numbers :)
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Yeah, of course I know the database uses plain numbers.
Anyway, my reason for bringing this up is that recently I've been thinking a lot about Burst and how it appears to new users. In the case of the wallet, for example, English users probably shouldn't see the apostrophes as separators.
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@FlippyCakes completely agree with this. lol living in the uk when i first saw it it confused me at first and i am tech savy. what would be idea is if the locale changed depending on the visitors location. and a setting so someone can change it.
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I'm pretty sure Burstcoin wanted it to be future proof and universal. In most contries in Europa they use either a point "." or a blank space " ". In that case, number would look like:
1 000 000
1.000.000In USA or other countries, they use the comma instead ",". That means it will look like:
1,000,000In USA 1.000.000 means 1
In (many) european countries, 1,000,000 means 1
by using " ' " instead, Burstcoin eliminated confusion, He completely eliminated any commonly used symbols in math and instead used a grammatical symbol.
Why he didn't use a white space instead, I don't know. He might have wanted to have a symbol, to make it easier to read.or Burstcoin simply comes from Switzerland or Italy.

