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Re:Use of decimal point is 1.5 centuries older than historia... by heavenlyblue on Friday February 23, 2024 @05:04AM (#39478868)
Also suggest US switches from crazy Month/Day/Year date formatting.

> it's just that it so happens that the English-speaking countries chose the more useful representation when it became time to program computers

English-speaking countries basically invented CSV so chose the symbols used in CSV files such that they work well with their way of writing numbers saved in these CSV

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