I've got a quote from a German company for 36.000€. Does this mean 36 or 36,000?
It seems more likely to be 36,000 based on the value of what I am buying.
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Sign up to join this communityI've got a quote from a German company for 36.000€. Does this mean 36 or 36,000?
It seems more likely to be 36,000 based on the value of what I am buying.
Yes 36.000€
is 36000 €
. In Germany groups of thousands are separated by .
and in exchange we have a decimal comma like 36.000,56 €
as a result of: (36000 + 56 / 100) €
.
Just to mention it: If there is a date, in German it would be: day.month.year, so 6.12.2019
(sometimes written as 6. Dezember 2019
or 06.12.2019
) is Dec 6th, 2019.
,
as the decimal separator. The user, aware that .
is the more common standard, attempt to use .
and promptly don't get the result you had hoped for. It's a nightmare.
'
as thousands separator.
As shown in the example usage on wikipedia, Germans use ,
as the decimal seperator and .
to group to thousands.
Germany: 1.234.567,89
USA: 1,234,567.89
Amounts in Euro will always have two decimal places - it has cents, not mils. However a price could have any, for example I've worked in telecomms and they used 4. They aren't the same thing - the latter is always per something or other (kg, megabyte, dozen). It should be obvious from the context which it is.
It is 36000 €. However, the ,
as the standard German decimal separator and the .
as the standard German thousands separator are showing signs of weakness, at least at gas stations. See
Note that the price per liter is either shown in € with three decimals, the third decimal (which is always a 9
) being depicted as a superscript and thus indicating its very special role, or in cents with one decimal. The only exception is example no. 3.
The rule is: Prices to be paid have at most two decimals (the decimals are frequently omitted if they are 00), prices per unit may have more decimals.
For prices you can frequently see also see the form € 12,-
instead of € 12,00
. In some restaurants you will € 12,8
instead of € 12,80
, but this seems to be still unusual.
not just Germany uses a decimal comma, most of Europe do and many other countries...
USA: € 100,000.00 Europe: € 100.000,00
An interesting read on decimal points and commas can be found at this link (smartickmethod)