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by new_guy123 3996 days ago
How come they reversed the dots and commas?
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Lots of countries get dots and commas backward. [0] Lots of countries also drive on the wrong side [1], but the two seem to have no correlation.

[0] http://www.statisticalconsultants.co.nz/blog/how-the-world-s...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic

There are many standards for decimal notation [0].

[0]. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-0169/overview-9/inde...

Not all countries use the U.S. style