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Re:How we got read access on Google’s production servers by cdelsolar on Friday April 11, 2014 @01:49PM (#7574342)
Hmm a pretty cheap road trip for just ten dollars, and I'm also not sure why they thought it necessary to include an extra significant figure for cents.
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Re:How we got read access on Google’s production servers by pmcjones on Friday April 11, 2014 @02:53PM (#7574708)
Some countries reverse the role of period and comma in numbers. The author meant ten thousand.
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Re:How we got read access on Google’s production servers by barsonme on Friday April 11, 2014 @09:12PM (#7576489)
I'll admit, it threw me off at first too.
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Re:How we got read access on Google’s production servers by bencoder on Saturday April 12, 2014 @08:39AM (#7577689)
Comma is actually used for decimal separator in more of the world than the period: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DecimalSeparator.svg
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