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Feel free to use it if it works for you. I can hardly claim ownership of the idea. IIFC, I was first exposed to the idea when I was in the 8th grade (the junior high had sort of folded over to the building that the high school was in, while the elementary school had grown a new building.) I do remember the room I was in when I first heard it, which is why I can tell you what grade I was in at the time. :-)
I've seen scientific publications which put the '.' at mid height instead of along the bottom line as we do it -- which made it a little easier to interpret it as different.
:-)
As long as there are enough grouping separators, or a number of digits at the end other than two or three, I can usually handle it without having to annotate the document. After all -- a typical mis-reading suddenly shifts the workpiece to something which would not fit on my machines. :-)
Aha -- knowing what search string to use makes a difference. :-)
Hmm ... so we can blame it on the French? :-)
I'm sorry to hear that.
What is done in scientific circles?
Yes -- I suspect that not many take my viewpoint that the "long scale" is more logical and thus would accept it even though it is not common in my country. :-)
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They have -- differently in different countries, because there are so many different "powers that be". :-)
Thanks, DoN.