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by Waterluvian 492 days ago
So is there no such thing as "100,000,004" and having no idea if that's a decimal or a thousands separator?
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mantas 492 days ago
Not sure where OP is from, but in my whereabouts „100,000,004“ wouldn’t show up in the wild. We use spaces to separate if really needed.
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Waterluvian 492 days ago
Ah makes sense. In Canada we were taught to use spaces to separate, and decimals for decimals. But being stuck so close to the US we end up with a mess of everything.
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bryanrasmussen 492 days ago
In Denmark for example the decimal and comma are reversed in meaning, so you would not have a Danish 100,000,004 because that is an obvious non-Danish number.
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