Campbell Ritchie wrote:Piet's suggestion works nicely, but moves the comma; I think commas go four places left of the decimal point in India and three places left in UK and USA.
There are other schemes, also. I think it's Peru that can represent numbers in the form 123'4567'8901 and I forget what they use for decimal marking.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.