Editing Culture of France (section)

==Conventions==
* France is the home of the [[International System of Units]] (the metric system).<ref>[https://www.nist.gov/physlab/div842/fcdc/si-units.cfm International System of Units (SI)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811143921/http://www.nist.gov/physlab/div842/fcdc/si-units.cfm |date=11 August 2010 }} – Physics Laboratory</ref> Some pre-metric units are still used, essentially the ''[[Pound (mass)#French livre|livre]]'' (a unit of weight equal to half a kilogram) and the ''[[quintal]]'' (a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms).
* In mathematics, France uses the [[infix notation]] like most countries. For large numbers the [[long and short scales|long scale]] is used. Thus, the French use the word ''[[billion (word)|billion]]'' for the number 1,000,000,000,000, which in countries using [[Long and short scales|short scale]] is called a [[Trillion (short scale)|trillion]]. However, there exists a French word, ''milliard'', for the number 1,000,000,000, which in countries using the short scale is called a billion. Thus, despite the use of the long scale, one billion is called ''un milliard'' ("one milliard") in French, and not ''mille millions'' ("one thousand million"). It should also be noted that names of numbers above the ''milliard'' are rarely used. Thus, one trillion will most often be called ''mille milliards'' ("one thousand milliard") in French, and rarely ''un billion''.
* In the French numeral notation, the comma (,) is the [[decimal separator]], whereas a space is used between each group of three digits (fifteen million five hundred thousand and thirty-two should be written as 15 500 032). In finance, the currency symbol is used as a decimal separator or put after the number. For example, €25,048.05 is written either 25 048€05 or €25 048,05 (always with an extra space between the figure and the currency symbol).
* In computing, a [[bit]] is called a bit yet a [[byte]] is called an [[octet (computing)|octet]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dictionary.reverso.net/french-english/octet|title=octet translation English – French dictionary – Reverso|website=dictionary.reverso.net|access-date=21 August 2017}}</ref> (from the Latin root ''octo'', meaning "8"). [[SI prefix]]es are used.
* [[24-hour clock]] time is used, with h being the separator between hours and minutes (for example 2:30&nbsp;pm is 14h30).
* The all-numeric form for dates is in the order day-month-year, using a slash as the separator (example: 31 December 1992 or 31/12/92).