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RE: feet - yards - metres
Posted by: Werner Frank ()
Date: November 22, 2000 03:03AM

<HTML>In Germany the decimal point is a comma; ie, their 67,10 meters is 67.1 meters in US and also is 67 meters and 10 centimeters (or 100 millimeters, or 1 decimeter). A meter is 39.37 inches, 3.28 feet or 1.093 yards; therefore 67,10 meters = 220.08 feet (or 73.34 yards). Ten thousand, five hundred and fifty three Deutschmarks and twenty-two pfennigs would be expressed as DM 10.553,22; the dot is used to separate hundreds from thousands, etc. like commas are used in the USA (and numerous other countries). I hope this clarifies any questions regarding the decimal point (period or comma).
When using billion and higher numbers there are differences in the powers of 10.

Another interesting difference: A German billion is a million millions; a millarde is like the US billion, ie, a thousand millions. This difference may longer be the case?
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RE: Stupid question Dakota 11/21/2000 06:00PM
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RE: feet - yards - metres Dakota 11/21/2000 09:43PM
RE: metres and centimetres Rainer Bruns 11/21/2000 10:55PM
No No No Don S 11/21/2000 11:20PM
RE: feet - yards - metres Werner Frank 11/22/2000 03:03AM
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RE: feet - yards - metres Dakota 11/22/2000 03:15PM
RE: feet - yards - metres Craig McLean 12/04/2000 02:47PM
RE: Stupid question Ying C. 11/22/2000 09:07AM
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RE: Stupid question CAL 11/24/2000 12:43PM
RE: Stupid question Rainer Bruns 11/25/2000 04:14PM
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