<html> <body> HOLD ON THERE, SON!! Not to overlook the subtlety of your <<aspersion>>, (or is it .),  ;) , . ?   Huh? Anyway, are you asserting that, because NORWAY misuses a comma, then, ipso facto, the alternative is AMERICAN??  Let's take a moment to take a brief survey, say, of the rest of the world.  Is this <<commabuse>> more widespread than I am aware of? I hope you checked out the link I sent.  Just think of the potential for disaster if we were to collaborate on a piano design.   Think of the Druid Arch in Spinal Tap.  This is serious stuff!!  ;-) (I found my smilies, yeh!!) David Skolnik At 08:17 AM 8/15/2006, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Dave, Dean, others; Sorry bout that .  Excell and other programs using math here in Norway require use of comma instead of period to denote the decimal point.  I will endeavour in the future to <<americanize>> all of these. :) As for where this is going.... just an excursion into some downbearing facts.  When I get done with the spreadsheet I'll share it with ya'll Cheers RicB ................ Ric, You are confusing us Yanks by interchanging commas and periods for decimal points! ;-) Dean</blockquote></body> </html>