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I'm writing my doctoral dissertation here in the United States, and quoting some text from an English-language paper written in Germany. In Germany, the convention for writing numbers is to use a c...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T01:35:20Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Ken Bloom
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2019-12-08T01:35:20Z (almost 5 years ago)
I'm writing my doctoral dissertation here in the United States, and quoting some text from an English-language paper written in Germany. In Germany, the convention for writing numbers is to use a comma as the decimal separator (`3,5 meters`), but in the United States, the convention is to use a period as the decimal separator (`3.5 meters`). Is it appropriate to reformat the numbers to the American convention when I quote this paper, or is it more appropriate to leave it as-is?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2011-05-10T02:45:22Z (over 13 years ago)
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