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I'm a bit lost here. Should I use british conventions? US conventions? Is there indian conventions? Or maybe cultural points I should be aware of?

Google is confusing me more than it is helping me?

Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

US: $1,234.56

Europe reverses that, so €1.234,56

Some of Europe does -- but the UK doesn't, and Ireland doesn't.

Also, looks like India uses a period as the decimal separator, the way the US does.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DecimalSeparator.svg

On the same note, a number of countries put the currency symbol at the end of a currency amount (postfix) rather than the beginning (prefix).

It looks like all of the UK, India, and the US use a prefix currency symbol (e.g. $100, £100, ₹100).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

India starts getting odd with large amounts though which is why I linked to the Wiki, I can't wrap my brain around how it works.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system

"The terms lakh or 1,00,000 (one hundred thousand, written as 100,000 outside the Indian subcontinent) and crore or 1,00,00,000[1] (ten million, written as 10,000,000 outside the subcontinent) are the most commonly used terms in Indian English to express large numbers in the system."

Soo...

"lakh: 150,000 rupees in India is referred to as "1.5 lakh rupees", which is written as 1,50,000 rupees;

crore: 30,000,000 (thirty million) rupees is referred to as "3 crore rupees", which is written as 3,00,00,000 rupees with commas at the thousand, lakh, and crore places."

I guess if you grew up with it, it makes perfect sense.