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Kummakivi is a 500.000 kg rock in Finland that has been balancing on another rock for 11.000 years (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kummakivi

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Is there a country that uses a different thousands separator based on unit?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Yes, in a lot of places a period is used for order-of-magnitude separation and comma is used for decimal places.

In this title the use seems inconsistent.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Either the rock weighs exactly 500kg to an impressive precision and has been there for eleven thousand years or it weighs five hundred thousand kg and has been there for exactly 11 years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

It's got something for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Right, i think he's asking if there's some culture where the inconsistency is designed based on unit. So, for example, period for years, comma for weight.

I think it's simply an error. Maybe AI generated?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Finland uses space for thousands (and comma for decimals), so an article in Finnish would have 500 000 kg

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I don't care how long it been balancing there I wouldn't dare stand that close to it, be just my luck it pick that moment to shrift.