Re: Digits separator

["Peter Neilson" <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>]

Going out on a limb, I'll suggest that the reason for the style is to  
prepare all text for automatic translation into all foreign languages. A  
human translator with local knowledge would of course use the locally  
correct separator, and would almost equally well recognize the different  
separator of the original's locale. Presumably the perpetrators of the  
style guide assume computers could never get the separator correct.

I am reminded of the change to decimal currency in Britain in 1971 on the  
purported grounds that "computers are decimal and cannot handle shillings  
and pence."

On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 02:24:38 -0400, Haim Roman <haim -dot- roman -at- gmail -dot- com>  
wrote: