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This is why space is the only acceptable thousands/grouping separator (a non-breaking space when possible). Avoids any confusion.

• fcanesin 8mo ago
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• xyproto 8mo ago
  Space is also confusing! Then it looks like two separate numbers. Underscore (_) is already used as a decimal separator in programming languages and Mathematics should just adopt it, IMO.
  • awakeasleep 8mo ago
    A competing format to simplify things?
    • ultratalk 8mo ago
      https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
    • bhaak 8mo ago
      A competing format that is understandable to probably everybody. An ISO 8601 date is also comprehensible to anybody even if they never seen it before and have to figure it out themselves.
      • fifilura 8mo ago
        Comprehensible? https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/ https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
        • bhaak 8mo ago
          I said date. Not time, not timestamp, not period, not week, not range, not ordinal date. Just date.
          • deleted 8mo ago
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  • wvbdmp 8mo ago
    You mean thousands separator, yes? Agreed, it’s annoying when languages don’t have this feature.
    • xyproto 8mo ago
      Ah yes, thousands separator.
  • wongarsu 8mo ago
    A thin non-breaking space also clears up the confusion without the visual clutter of the underscore. It's just inconvenient to use
• mulmen 8mo ago
  The problem is our primitive text representation online. The formatting should be localized but there’s not a number type I can easily insert inline in a text box.