Curiously, I was actually thinking of that when composing my post. I thought their non-standard grouping was four; so five hundred thousand, 500_000, would be fifty myriad, 50_0000 (although they have a different word for myriad).

Anyway, the point was that you can put the underscores wherever you want (so long as you don't put two or more together). And the examples were already getting almost to the point of silliness (e.g. 16 as 1_6), without embarking on a world-tour of numbering systems.

Thanks for the link: I did have a quick look; I was wrong about the myriad grouping; it's been about 15 years since I last encountered that, so I'm not overly surprised that it wasn't fresh in my memory.

— Ken

In reply to Re^5: Printing to stdout an array of strings and scalar references by kcott
in thread Printing to stdout an array of strings and scalar references by Anonymous Monk

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