Who is greater a decimal point or comma?

Answer 1

Team Comma

A decimal point really has only one function: to separate a whole number from other numbers, which make that whole number into a more complicated number. A comma, on the other hand, can be used in a sentence in many ways: to separate various words when such words are nouns being used in a list, to provide breaks in a sentence without actually contributing to the end of the sentence, to separate one subject from another in the same sentence, and so forth. Due to these uses, a comma is greater and makes itself more useful than a decimal point.

Team Decimal Point

Both are used in mathematics, and in some countries their roles are reversed, with a comma as the decimal mark, and dots (periods) separating groups such as thousands and millions. The decimal mark is a critical feature of mathematics, without which subunit significant figures could not be assigned. The only alternative would be to express every number as a long whole number with an appropriate prefix to the unit (meters, centimeters, millimeters). In any event, calculators would be totally useless. And in spite of the binary language of computers, much of our advanced floating-point computation, a major basis for industry and technology, would be difficult if not impossible.

The comma in writing, in many cases, is simply an aid without which most sentences would still be readable. The decimal point's twin brother, the period or full stop, could also be omitted from literature, except in German where the start of a sentence would be impossible to determine, given all of the capitalized nouns.

Some phrasings would have to rewritten without it, so the comma is a useful punctuation mark. But it does not have nearlythe importance of its overseas cousin, the decimal mark comma, or of our own decimal point.