Why did my son get banned on XBL?

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Vietnamese date: 18.04.2010
Normal (United States): 04/18/2010

My point? Month and date is reversed, and I use periods between the numbers instead of commas as well.

Actually, more like: USA: 04/18/2010

Rest of the world: 18/04/10

Actually, more like: USA: 04/18/2010

Rest of the world: 18/04/10

Correct.

To avoid such errors, just write

April 18, 2010.

It's like that in spanish too, 18/04/2010, and for numbers it's with periods not commas.

In Spain we use commas for decimals.

Actually, more like: USA: 04/18/2010

Rest of the world: 18/04/10

Except for ODBC canonical which is YYYY-MM-DD ( descending order of significance)

Welcome to the funhouse.

In Spain we use commas for decimals.

Here in Chile too, but for example we write 10.243,48 and North american would write 10,243.48

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Here in Chile too, but for example we write 10.243,48 and North american would write 10,243.48

Since I know it's the same for French, I would assume the America (or English) won at odd one out again.

Off course using periods is the right way to use it! Tsssskkkk...

What are periods for? To group different words together as a sentence and to separate multiple sentences from other ones. So it's used to show groups! Groups of number quantities for example:

- 1x thousand + 1x million + 1x billion = 1000.1000.1000
- 1x thousand and 1x thousand and 1x thousand = 1000 and 1000 and 1000 = 1000,1000,1000

For here now it's proven that USA citizens can't do math...
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Why do you have 4 digits per cluster instead of 3? It should be 100,000,000. 1's, 10's, 100's.

Comma's are used to separate items; periods are used to end a [statement]. It makes more sense that a comma would be used to separate each group of 100's rather than a period which would go at the end.

Not all of Europe. The English do it right (as usual).

England is the european America.

Comma's are used to separate items; periods are used to end a [statement]. It makes more sense that a comma would be used to separate each group of 100's rather than a period which would go at the end.

This.
You don't say "I. Want. To. Eat. Pizza.", or "I wish I had a pony. a barn. and some hay". You use commas to show they're different but related. 100.100.100.100 = an IP address, not 100,100,100,100. (100 billion, 100 million, 100 thousand, 100.)

inb4 marladillion or w/e the crazy european name for a billion is.

Why do you have 4 digits per cluster instead of 3? It should be 100,000,000. 1's, 10's, 100's.

Comma's are used to separate items; periods are used to end a [statement]. It makes more sense that a comma would be used to separate each group of 100's rather than a period which would go at the end.

There you go! See how confusing this all is? I even begin counting into 4 digit number clusters

inb4 marladillion or w/e the crazy european name for a billion is.

The name for a billion is miliard

Noobs	Pro's	Power of a Million (proof why Americans are noobs)
Million	Million	Million^1
Billion	Milliard	Million^1.5
Trillion	Billion	Million^2
Quadrillion	Billiard	Million^2.5
Quintillion	Trillion	Million^3
Sextillion	Trilliard	Million^3.5
Septillion	Quadrillion	Million^4
Octillion	Quadrilliard	Million^4.5
Nonillion	Quintillion	Million^5
Decillion	Quintilliard	Million^5.5
Undecillion	Sextillion	Million^6
Duodecillion	Sextilliard	Million^6.5
Tredecillion	Septillion	Million^7
Quattuordecillion (say wut? )	Septilliard	Million^7.5
Quindecillion	Octillion	Million^8
Sexdecillion	Octilliard	Million^8.5

Funny, you'd think it'd have been americans to figure out how to add lard to math...

Quadrillion =

There you go! See how confusing this all is? I even begin counting into 4 digit number clusters

The name for a billion is miliard

~table of fail~

Million, 10^6 = (1)
Billion = (2)
Trillion = (3)
et cetera.
None of this Miliard crap. Nice and simple. How many sets of three 0s make a trillion? Well, Tri = 3, so (3 * 3 = 9) + 3 base 0s = 10^12 = a trillion. Nice, simple, easy. No need to name two numbers Bi*, or Tri*, et cetera.

Crazy Europeans.