Re: ARMS WAVING!!! Proposal to fix /proc dainbrammage.
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Sat, 24 Oct 1998 11:40:06 +1000
Linus Torvalds writes:
>
> On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Richard Gooch wrote:
> > Tim Smith writes:
> > >
> > > Actually, don't a lot of people think that 123.456 is an integer between
> > > 123000 and 124000, and that 123,456 is a floating point number somewhere
> > > between 123 and 124? This is the only possible objection I can think of
> > > to having numbers formatted for humans in /proc, and it is a pretty lame
> > > objection, but for completelness, I thought it should be pointed out.
> >
> > No, 123.456 is a number between 123 and 124. 123,456 is in fact a
> > co-ordinate pair (123 for the first axis, 456 for the second).
>
> No. In most of europe (except when it comes to computers), the "."
> is the "thousand-separator" and the "," is the decimal point (except
> they call it the "decimal comma" in the appropriate language).
Yes, I know. I should have put a smiley face there. Maybe with a
comment about it being the way it should be done...
Regards,
Richard....
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