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Re:Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day... by Natfan on Monday February 15, 2021 @06:38PM (#26149166)
To clarify, that's fifty one thousand, correct? Some countries use a period (.) as their "digit group separator"[0], and others use a comma (,).

[0]: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/110693

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Re:Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day... by BillinghamJ on Monday February 15, 2021 @07:24PM (#26149534)
I generally work on the assumption that if it's being used to separate three digit separation, it's a thousand separator. If only two digits and it's a currency with cents, probably a decimal separator.
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