Euro dopers , gotta currency conversion prob

Factual Questions
1

I downloaded some software from a german company , thats worked quite well on my palm and now I am going to pay for the licensced version.

On the website that the company has for paying the dosh , the quoted price was

19,95

And when I plugged that into a currency converter online , 28 hundred bucks canadian was not a nice surprise , but plugging the same number in with the decimal instead of the comma, it came out to just about 30 dollars canadian.

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So did I do the conversion properly and it is 30 dollars CAD , or was the first figure right.

Declan

2

19,95 is how most European countries write 19.95. They use a comma instead of a decimal point.

The currecny converter site you used (was it XE.com?) obviously doesn’t recognise that. I just tried converting “19,95” euros to Canadian dollars and it came back with “1,995.00 EUR = 2,918.76 CAD”.

I have no idea why it thinks that “19,95” is actually “1,995”, but anyway, it should be just under $30, yes.

3

For the reason above, we were taught in school (here in the UK) not to use commas when writing down long strings of digits.

4

Yes - were you taught the same as me, to put no commas but to group digits into threes, so as to still indicate the place value of thousands/millions/billions, with slight spaces between?

5

Just like that, not 1,999,999 but 1 999 999 for example.

6

Don’t do that either

It could turn up as 1 and it could raise an error

7

No, that’s only when writing by hand. No gaps when typing.

8

Sorry for delay in replying , but first thanks for the confirmation, and second it was XE that did the erroneous currency conversion, first one to come up in google.

Declan

9

Actually, the first one to come up in Google is Google. It seems to understand the whole comma/decimal thing, even when I try to fake it out. :slight_smile: