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Re:I saw a cool truck today by bbarnett on Monday May 09, 2022 @05:39AM (#31312186)
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.

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Re:I saw a cool truck today by vetinari on Monday May 09, 2022 @06:54AM (#31312630)
Even street vendors in random Asian places will punch the numbers into calculator and show you. You don't have to understand the language.
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Re:I saw a cool truck today by bbarnett on Monday May 09, 2022 @06:58AM (#31312660)
Have to? No. But that's not the point.
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