Fwd: How are large numbers written in former Yugoslavia?

[Ellen Elias-Bursac]

The rule as I learned it is that you have alternating commas and periods,
in such a way that 15,000,000.00 (fifteen million) in English would be
written:  15,000.000,00
        Note that where we have a decimal point, they have a comma. It is
true that sometimes numbers are written with a small space, but the
alternating comma and period system is the standard way I learned. Since
one writes thousands much more often than millions, people are most
familiar with the period for thousands: 1.300 for one thousand three
hundred, and may not realize that there would be a comma for millions.
Ellen Elias-Bursac


On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Russell Valentino wrote:

> A colleague in the Iowa Testing Program is preparing math tests for children
> who's first language is Bosnian, Serbian, or Croatian. She asks the question
> below. Anyone with an answer, please reply to me off list, and I'll be happy to
> forward responses to her.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Russell Valentino
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Gayle Bray <gayle-bray at uiowa.edu> -----
>
> In making inquires about how numbers over 10,000 are notated, I have heard a
> variety of things from several reliable sources. X told me that in some areas,
> a comma is used to separate the groups of figures, as in the U.S., and in other
> areas a period is used. A second person told me that a small space is used. Yet
> another person said she remembers using a small space OR a period.
>         Of course, it's possible that there are regional differences
> or generational differences. Do you have any idea how kids nowadays
> are taught to write these numbers in the countries of the former
> Yugoslavia?
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
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