Re: Digits separator

[Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>]

The thin, non breaking space makes sense. A general space would also
confuse, if the number were broken at the end of a line.

-Tony

On Tuesday, March 18, 2014, Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> wrote:

> On 3/18/2014 1:19 PM, Milan Davidović wrote:
>
>> If anyone has a link/citation or other pointer handy for the rationale
>> behind this, could you post it? Thanks.
>>
>
> Wikinews?
> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Style_guide#Decimal_fractions
>
> IEEE
> "6) Use thin spaces (instead of a comma) between numbers in tens or
> hundreds of thousands (e.g., 60 000, 100 000, but 4000)."
> http://www.ieee.org/documents/stylemanual.pdf
>
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