<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Dimitris,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">firstly, you should definitely use “.” (period) as decimal separator, not “,” (comma).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Where does this happen (which feature of ESP-r is being used)? There are certain places in the code, where this is done, however, they should be few.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m afraid I couldn’t really help, though, as I cannot compile the windows version (I could maybe point to the place in the code which would need a change, however). My recent experience with students is that either a Cygwin installation or a dual boot Linux installation was basically manageable by the students (one, each, only, though, so no large statistic). Being able to compile the code does make life easier, in my experience.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best</div><div class="">Achim</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 09 Nov 2015, at 17:24, Dimitris Jim Sfakianakis <<a href="mailto:dsfakianakis@gmail.com" class="">dsfakianakis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear list,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I recently introduced an MSc student to ESP-r. She is using the Windows 12.2 version. Her problem is that whenever she defines an arithmetic with a decimal point, ESP-r automatically disregards the decimal and saves the number as an integer.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">e.g. 2.7 becomes 2.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">She is Greek and she is using a Greek version of windows, and I mention that because the default decimal separator is comma ',' and not period '.'. We tried using both when defining numbers with decimal points but the problem did not go away.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any thoughts? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class=""><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Kind regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dimitris</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">t: +1 (949) 202 - 8053</div><div class="">e: <a href="mailto:dsfakianakis@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">dsfakianakis@gmail.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsfakianakis" target="_blank" class=""><img src="http://esbenlash.net/img/linkedin.png" alt="My Linkedin profile" class=""></a>    <a href="https://twitter.com/EfficientDim" target="_blank" class=""><img src="https://www.aeaweb.org/images/t_logo-a.png" class=""></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div></div> _______________________________________________<br class="">esp-r mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk" class="">esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk</a><br class="">http://lists.strath.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/esp-r</div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div class=""><a href="mailto:achim.geissler@intergga.ch" class="">achim.geissler@intergga.ch</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br class=""></div></body></html>