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Re:Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violati... by bondant on Friday August 18, 2023 @09:12AM (#37175149)
Could use a space or an underscore:

100 000

100_000

Re:Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violati... by jacquesm on Friday August 18, 2023 @09:34AM (#37175407)
Now you have two problems.
Re:Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violati... by NoZebra120vClip on Saturday August 19, 2023 @06:44AM (#37187406)
I got 99.0 problems and separators ain't one
Re:Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violati... by rphln on Friday August 18, 2023 @09:27AM (#37175316)
How about U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE?

1 000 (Narrow nbsp)

1 000 (Regular nbsp)

(Assuming HN even allows it.)

Re:Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violati... by registeredcorn on Friday August 18, 2023 @09:33AM (#37175387)
Interesting! Do you know of any countries that use the underscore? I believe I've seen France(...?) use spaces as a separator, but I've never come across the underscore.

Personally I would like some means of breaking up units of triplets that could be used universally. It's frustrating that there isn't a standard across the globe for such crucial means of expression. It wasn't until fairly recently that I learned that the comma wasn't the universal standard.

Re:Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violati... by bondant on Friday August 18, 2023 @09:39AM (#37175483)
I am not aware of any country using the underscore to separate multiple of thousands, I just thought of it because it can be used for that purpose in some programming languages. Ans if it's true that no country is using it, then I guess it could be used as a 'neutral' way of doing it.
Re:Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violati... by GhostWhisperer on Friday August 18, 2023 @09:26AM (#37175301)
why not '
Re:Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violati... by downvotetruth on Friday August 18, 2023 @11:51AM (#37177375)
Spaces cause ambiguity with separate values like 123 456. Underscores are ambiguous with missing values due to the common use of a line segment to indicate where to fill out form values in addition to the same separate values issue as spaces.