In your "regional settings" applet in control panel you can play with the
country settings without changing the language and see the effects
, and . become interchangeable

at least until amerkin television rampaged through, a billion has always
been 10 raised to the 12th power, probably why there are more seppo
billionaires than anywhere
Zed, not Zee
colour

The language is English, so the way the English do it should be correct,
except that the English cant understand each other

Agitate for language standards
Lets all speak Australian

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"Ron Sommer" <rsommer@nospam.ktis.net> wrote in message
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> "Alias" <aka@[notme]maskedandanonymous.org> wrote in message
> news:%23P0RJOaDGHA.1268@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > PA Bear wrote:
> >
> >>> Since my client's OE database is (at least for what I'm used to see)
> >>> huge,
> >>> that is 3,096 GB, and her OE inbox looks more like a huge Christmass
> >>> tree
> >>
> >>
> >> Ouch!
> >
> > In some countries, like Spanish speaking ones, 3,096 would be 3.096. In
> > other words, 1,000 would be 1. Also, a billion would be one thousand
> > million.
> >
> > --
> > Alias
> >
> > Use the Reply to Sender feature of your news reader program to email me.
> > Utiliza Responder al Remitente para mandarme un mail.
>
> Do you have a reference for your number information?
> If 3,096 would be 3.096. then what would 3.096 be?
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