• Hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    In the us commas are the thousands separator not the decimal. The number is 12,000 or 12 thousand. The one point the article that said “12,00” is a mistake where they left off the trailing zero.

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      I remember the first time I learned that this was not universal; I was in my late teens and installing a set of fancy Italian speakers where that precision mattered quite a bit. I feel like maybe that should be at least a mention in math class here in America.