SolyMan

Hi

Is it common for a decimal point "." to be used as the thousands separator in Hungarian bank account statements ?

For example, does 3.559.494 = 3,559,494 in the UK ?

Appreciate any help.

Cheers

Sol.

fidobsa

Yes, that is what they do in Hungary. It takes some getting used to and you need to do the same on any numbers you want a Hungarian to read. I found it all quite confusing when I first came to Hungary and I still sometimes give the wrong notes for things in shops eg a 500 when it should be a 5000. I don't know how they wrote the numbers when they had coins of less than a Forint (100 fillér = 1 Forint).

SolyMan

Thank you

Peter_in_Hungary

That is correct. As said above the "." is used as the thousands seperator but also a comma"," is used as the decimal point. A bit confising for us Brits.

Also the Hungarian version of excel uses a "," for the decimal point which can make importing files dificult.

wolfi

Actually nowadays most countries (except those still measuring in inch and feet ...) use the comma as the decimal mark:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark