Less free underscores in number literals

[Jimmy Cao]

I don't know about the Japanese, but Chinese people read like
12ÒÚ£¬3456Íò£¬7890.  (simplified, traditional version would be exactly the same
writing as Japanese).
I've never seen it separated with commas though, I always see 1234567890.

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Jesse Phillips
<jessekphillips+D at gmail.com<jessekphillips%2BD at gmail.com>
> wrote:

> Rainer Deyke Wrote:
>
> > Using groupings of three digits in Japanese seems extremely awkward,
> > especially for larger numbers, since you would have to mentally regroup
> > the digits in groups of four in order to read it.  It's not just the
> > written language but the spoken language that uses groups of four.  For
> > example, the number 1,234,567,890 would be read as 12ƒ|, 3456Íò, 7890.
> >
> > Rainer Deyke - rainerd at eldwood.com
>
> I just asked, and the Japanese separate by the thousands when they write,
> and it is read as you described.
>
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