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My reasoning is that the period is a "stronger" punctuation mark than the comma, and it should be used for the more important separation.
as someone who grew up using the comma, I agree. Mostly because it's easier for computers to parse
Why do so many cultures accept using colons to separate divisions of time (posted around 08:30:45 local time) but none of them use it for separation of general numbers? (It is sometimes used for division or ratios, i.e. 10:1 for 10 to 1 odds.) Seems like we could use units (like with measurements) or prefix units (like with currency) to indicate different uses for numbers, and maybe ratios just use double colons?
Designing programming languages, you will spend way too much time obsessing over things like this. Some languages use underscores as a grouping separator. What about bases? Exponential notation?
I believe that money should be calculated to more significant digits. Give me micropennies or give me death.
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I don't care which decimal separator you use, but please use a space for the thousands separator!