[jrrv]

Am I missing something or is the author using dots for both breaking up large numbers and also for decimal points?

[FinnKuhn]

Yes, I assume it is because you use dots to seperate large numbers in most European languages and they forgot it's different in English.

[hansonkd]

usually its a combination of . , not exclusively . for both the thousands seperator and the radix point.

[FinnKuhn]

Well, they appear to have remembered it when typing the radix point, but forgot it when it came to the thousands separator.

This might have happened to me before as well...