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Quite. Reading numbers is far easier than someone saying those numbers in a foreign language. If someone speaks 10.43 to me in German, I have no idea.

• vetinari 5y ago
  Even street vendors in random Asian places will punch the numbers into calculator and show you. You don't have to understand the language.
  • b112 5y ago
    Have to? No. But that's not the point.