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    227 months ago

    Is there a country that uses a different thousands separator based on unit?

    • @[email protected]
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      227 months ago

      Yes, in a lot of places a period is used for order-of-magnitude separation and comma is used for decimal places.

      In this title the use seems inconsistent.

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        167 months ago

        Either the rock weighs exactly 500kg to an impressive precision and has been there for eleven thousand years or it weighs five hundred thousand kg and has been there for exactly 11 years.

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        37 months ago

        Right, i think he’s asking if there’s some culture where the inconsistency is designed based on unit. So, for example, period for years, comma for weight.

        I think it’s simply an error. Maybe AI generated?

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      7 months ago

      Finland uses space for thousands (and comma for decimals), so an article in Finnish would have 500 000 kg

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      27 months ago

      I don’t care how long it been balancing there I wouldn’t dare stand that close to it, be just my luck it pick that moment to shrift.