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layer8
237 days ago
Given that world is about evenly split on the decimal separator [0] (and correspondingly on the thousands grouping separator), it’s hard to avoid. You could standardize on “;” as the argument separator, but “1,000” would still remain ambiguous.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Conventions_...