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    4 months ago

    27,000 and 1.5

    Why do 27 and 000 belong closer together than 1 and 5? Both numbers are incomplete when leaving out a component.

    You can argue either way honestly

    Agreed, it’s completely arbitrary.

    more of the world use periods for decimal notation

    It’s two pretty large groups but you’ve got India and China, so population wise it’s pretty clear. Let’s make a deal: we (Europe) switch to the dot as decimal separator if the US switches to metric.