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 "content_md": "# Thousand separators\n\n\n<p>There's been some discussion about the correct way to write numbers today at work. Here's my take on it:</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1384\" alt=\"thousandSeparators\" src=\"https://notionparallax.co.uk/assets/thousandSeparators.png\" /></p>\n<p>And with the hidden chars turned on:</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1386\" alt=\"thousandSeparatorsWhidden\" src=\"https://notionparallax.co.uk/assets/thousandSeparatorsWhidden.png\" /></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>I’ve always been surprised that people still use a comma to separate thousands as they’ve been deprecated since the ’70s!</p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http://extranet.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/DSME/decimals/SLIMversion/backinfo/overseas.shtml\"><p>In different countries around the world, different symbols are used to mark the decimal part of the number and to separate the thousands. In Australia today we use a decimal point and a space (as a thousands separator), but until the 1970′s the accepted notation was a comma as a thousands separator.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>We ran into this on a competition we did a while ago, and it turns out that the correct thousand separator is a thin space.</p>\n<p> It’s <code>&amp;thinsp;</code> in html and in InDesign you can get to it with the shortcut** [ctrl]+[shift]+[alt]+[m]** or through the _Type → Insert white space → Thin space_ menu.</p>\n<p><a href=\"/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/thousandSeparatorsINDD.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1385\" alt=\"thousandSeparatorsINDD\" src=\"https://notionparallax.co.uk/assets/thousandSeparatorsINDD.png\" /></a></p>\n",
 "content_html": "<h1>Thousand separators</h1>\n<p>There’s been some discussion about the correct way to write numbers today at work. Here’s my take on it:</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1384\" alt=\"thousandSeparators\" src=\"https://notionparallax.co.uk/assets/thousandSeparators.png\" /></p>\n<p>And with the hidden chars turned on:</p>\n<p><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1386\" alt=\"thousandSeparatorsWhidden\" src=\"https://notionparallax.co.uk/assets/thousandSeparatorsWhidden.png\" /></p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>I’ve always been surprised that people still use a comma to separate thousands as they’ve been deprecated since the ’70s!</p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http://extranet.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/DSME/decimals/SLIMversion/backinfo/overseas.shtml\">\n  <p>In different countries around the world, different symbols are used to mark the decimal part of the number and to separate the thousands. In Australia today we use a decimal point and a space (as a thousands separator), but until the 1970′s the accepted notation was a comma as a thousands separator.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>We ran into this on a competition we did a while ago, and it turns out that the correct thousand separator is a thin space.</p>\n<p> It’s <code>&amp;thinsp;</code> in html and in InDesign you can get to it with the shortcut** [ctrl]+[shift]+[alt]+[m]** or through the <em>Type → Insert white space → Thin space</em> menu.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://notionparallax.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/thousandSeparatorsINDD.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1385\" alt=\"thousandSeparatorsINDD\" src=\"https://notionparallax.co.uk/assets/thousandSeparatorsINDD.png\" /></a></p>\n",
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