Talk:Commatizing numbers: Difference between revisions
→Ambiguous task spec. Oddly specific for some things while it glosses over others completely.
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If the answer is "Well you need to know what the numeric string represents ahead of time and only use when appropriate.", then don't pretend that there is some general algorithm that can be applied. Knowing ahead of time is not an algorithm.--[[User:Thundergnat|Thundergnat]] ([[User talk:Thundergnat|talk]]) 15:54, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
: I share your frustration with this task. Like you, I do not think that this task represents any sort of "general algorithm", and I'd much rather see efforts directed at geometric or mechanical modelling, or manipulation of audio data, or something interesting like that. That said, I would not characterize it as "ambiguous" so much as "completely arbitrary". And perhaps it would indeed be better to create one or more of the three modular tasks you've implied, and add links to them from here? That said, I guess I also need to acknowledge that knowing ahead of time is actually kind of important. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 16:07, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
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